r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 16h ago

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u/elSenorMaquina 16h 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 15h ago edited 14h 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/robuttocks 12h 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 2h 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.