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by jmcmaster 2903 days ago
Former NASA engineer turned YouTube science fun guy Mark Rober explained this attack in 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vc-69M-UWk

and references this 2011 UCSD paper Heat of the moment: characterizing the efficacy of thermal camera-based attacks

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2028058

So not sure what the Thermanator folks are adding here...

EDIT: Thermanator paper cites the UCSD research, focuses on qwerty keyboards, updated technology for thermal cameras, comparisons to other attack vectors for public password entry (when you are at coffee shop, airport, ATM etc.).