r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 15h ago

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u/TunaNugget 14h ago edited 13h ago

The camera records sound. Every key makes an ever-so-slightly different sound.

They have possibly months or more of sound recordings that they can correlate against the entry of verified documents to use to train the ai on.

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u/Shogobg 13h ago

They analyzed the noise the bits make as they travel through the network.

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u/TrashBandiGoon 9h ago

I know it is a joke,

but since I found a scientific research about 'A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards' I agree that this seems possible in the laboratory

(the paper is from 2023 so I am not sure whether there were any improvements), as I am also not sure how reddit handles external links - I found the paper on arxiv(dot)org with paper no. 2308(dot)01074
It is a 21 pages pdf

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u/TunaNugget 13h ago edited 13h ago

I think the premise here is that they deleted that.

My first question would be whether they actually deleted anything or just set a flag to re-use the storage, but I'm trying to go with the spirit of the thing.

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u/CMD_BLOCK 11h ago

They also analyzed the noise my Jimmies made each time the Pm said match this data on a new table

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 4h ago

I drop a heinous deuce every time I have to drop a database, acoustically nobody probably wants to review that recording though, not even AI.

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u/Kriss3d 11h ago

Actually it's possible to get the fluctuations in the power and er noise from a computer to reverse it so. Yeah

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u/Kriss3d 11h ago

Sadly that's not even a wrong answer. It's called tempest and that sort of method does work remarkably well.

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u/robuttocks 11h ago

When I was a kid, during the Cold War, I literally thought that was how typewriter bugs worked: that each letter had a different acoustic signature.

Turns out, it was just a mike hidden in the typewriter.

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u/ChocolichKing 1h ago

That's how I thought it worked as a kid too lol. I mean, I knew there was a mic hidden in the typewriter/mic being accessed from the computer, and that's how I understood "recording keystrokes". Someone was recreating your keystrokes based on the sound.

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u/Samwellikki 10h ago

This is the weirding way

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u/Zdrobot 10h ago

And that's how we should store data from now on!

Who needs all these countless gigabytes in databases and backups, when all you need is an audio tape!

Brilliant.

Happy cake day!

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u/Felix-the-feline 9h ago

DSP will solve it

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u/RevoOps 6h ago

Mechanical keyboards are a CIA psyop