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by marbu 1345 days ago
Indeed, this is not a new idea. The news here is about particular implementation for extracting passwords from QWERTY keyboards.

That said, this is not a big problem for ATM pin pads with metal keys, because these conduct heat well and so a heat pattern is hard to detect after few seconds. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJCfTlQ82Fw