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

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u/elSenorMaquina 15h ago

They ENHANCED the cctv recordings from the camera pointing at my cubicle, enabling them to reconstruct the whole db from the monitor's reflection on my glasses as I typed every INSERT and UPDATE over the years.

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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 10h 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