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by gubsz 2508 days ago
How would you be able to pull out any information out of an audio recording of keyboard typing? Wouldn't the training set differ between keyboards too? Sounds interesting it it worked, do you have any sources?
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You get a week's worth of typing; you cluster the sounds; then based on statistical frequency analysis you decode which cluster maps to the spacebar and which to the letter 'x'; then you can transcribe the whole typing history and decide which of all that is a password.
Great plan, but we have to test it. Can you upload a sample dataset of you typing for 1 week so we can try this approach?
What's your address? I can send it on a usb key.
This is like a hacker chess match, and here I am all out of popcorn.
You can just mail it to

9800 Savage Rd. Suite 6272

Ft. Meade, MD 20755-6000

I have their dataset. Email me for details.
Can it be published? Happy to contribute bandwidth!
I think it was a joke