[philsalesses]

I can not be the only one whose faith in secure digital has been fundamentally and irrevocably altered in light of the past few years. In my estimation, anything that has been said or typed in the proximity of a connected digital device is compromised. There are just too many attack vectors.

I imagine if you had enough realtime keystroke data, you could even identify a user using nothing more than how they type on a keyboard. That's some scary stuff.

Privacy advocates would better serve the public if they instead educated people on how to communicate securely instead of producing yet another black box that users can blindly put their trust in. I suppose this is better than nothing when dealing with less capable actors, but for those who plan their future years ahead, doing something on this phone, only to have it bulk collected and stuck in a database for decryption and analysis later when it serves the political will of those in power is counter productive.

[internetcitizen]

"I imagine if you had enough realtime keystroke data, you could even identify a user using nothing more than how they type on a keyboard."

And what they typed - acoustic snooping.

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/acoustic-snooping-...

[rhaps0dy]

>I imagine if you had enough realtime keystroke data, you could even identify a user using nothing more than how they type on a keyboard. That's some scary stuff.

This was on HN a while ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9973329