KeyTap3 Exploit Knows What You Type; Mechanical Keyboard Eavesdropping

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Programmer Georgi Gerganov doesn’t use any Bluetooth, WiFi, or RF-based methods to eavesdrop on your keyboards, but rather a normal microphone. That’s right, it essentially captures audio of you typing before using that information to generate a cluster map of clicks with similar sounds.

It then analyzes those clusters and utilizes statistical information about the frequency of the letter n-grams in the supposed language of the text.

The algorithm realizes that some of these letter combinations are used more frequently in certain languages, like English, and then begins guessing.

Try it out here if you have a clicky mechanical keyboard. This exploit would most likely not fare well against Samsung’s SelfieType, an AI-powered keyboard. more


Comment: No, websites don't need use your microphone to pickup your typing to show you ads.

Google uses microwave imaging, silicon trojans and machine learning to pickup your inner speech and lets advertisers and terrorists have it all for free.
 
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Time to put mechanical keyboards on the "not to buy list"
>almost all shops have mechanical keyboards
Don't fucking tell me I have no other options if I don't want a mechanical one.
 
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We win again chicklet chads, redditors and /g/entoomen btfo.

I'm surprised this is only just coming up now though, hasn't this been shown as a proof of concept in the past? I swear I've read about microphone based tracking/using the mic to infer what a user is doing on their computer, even beyond typing.

Imagine something like this being used in Discord for tracking purposes, it'd be easy for them to do (and you bet they would), discord is basically always polling the microphone, and the userbase is more likely to use mechanical keyboards.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
Aren't you the guy who posts schizo threads once in a while
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Yes he is.
nsopegasusyou said:
I made for myself a feed reader that can visit pages that need JavaScript (with Puppeteer), make feeds from it (PHP script), make full feeds out of it and write the result to an email file (msg/eml). I then take these files to an air-gapped computer (no network ports, no radio dongles) and read it there with a localhost web stack and custom JavaScript that makes it easy to read hundreds of entries every day. The emails include images and even videos, so there is no need to visit the sites manually most of the time.

Besides learning what is written in all these feeds, I have come to learn what isn't written: the US military has access to all PCs (even air-gapped ones) by using radio to control all CPUs (BadBIOS). They use this for blackmail, sabotage and theft. All done by state sponsored cyber terrorists. This is the reason the US is insisting that countries don't use Chinese 5G: China has discovered what the US was doing and now can either do it themselves or block the US' radio transmissions - and the US doesn't want to lose their backdoors.

I also learned that the big social networks tap into the data mined by the US' military to surface recommendations in their timelines. TikTok was called a national security threat, but isn't the only one that is tapping the surveillance machine: Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are on it too.

I am willing to partner with researchers who want to replicate my findings and reverse engineer the malware they inject on the RAM of PCs. There is more that I haven't written here, but ask away and I will reply. For those who don't have the skills or don't want to face the danger of going against a corrupt military, but that still want to stand against the violations of Human Rights that are going on, just spread the word. Thank you.
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I just tested this with an AT2035 microphone put a couple of inches above my hands while typing. It got a few of the letters right but it wasn't close at all. When I moved the mic out of the way, to the position I usually have it at when I'm not using it, it didn't capture anything.
 
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We win again chicklet chads, redditors and /g/entoomen btfo.

I'm surprised this is only just coming up now though, hasn't this been shown as a proof of concept in the past? I swear I've read about microphone based tracking/using the mic to infer what a user is doing on their computer, even beyond typing.
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I reember years ago hearing how they used this in conjunction with a laser listening device. They would shine the laser at your window, and it could pick up the vibrations somehow, where they did the keyboard polling.

I think half this shit they just make up to fuck with skitzos...years before it's anywhere near usable.
 
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Stabmaster Arson said:
I reember years ago hearing how they used this in conjunction with a laser listening device. They would shine the laser at your window, and it could pick up the vibrations somehow, where they did the keyboard polling.

I think half this shit they just make up to fuck with skitzos...years before it's anywhere near usable.
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Don't forget their greatest fear: Obi-Wan in black helicopters above their house.
 
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Sounds like a shittier version of video recording plants and looking at the vibration of the leaves to "hear" what people in a room are saying.
 
dak said:
Bruh. I'm writing this on a copy of ungoogled-chromium I built myself, in DWM, on a $4 Lenovo membrane keyboard I got from a thrift store. Don't tar us /g/entoomen all with the same brush. I'm not sure there are many more diverse groups of individuals.
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Real niggas use disposable cheap keyboards so when they r00t something they can break the keyboard over their knee like a rock star smashing up a guitar.
 
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dak said:
Bruh. I'm writing this on a copy of ungoogled-chromium I built myself, in DWM, on a $4 Lenovo membrane keyboard I got from a thrift store. Don't tar us /g/entoomen all with the same brush. I'm not sure there are many more diverse groups of individuals.
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"Weird" how on that board in those threads for posting photo evidence of setups the posters are always the people with all of the new expensive shit .
 
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