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by PeterisP 2508 days ago
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.
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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