Mitigating factors include typing style, multi-case passwords, uncommon laptops.

Laptops more susceptible to having keyboard recorded in quieter areas, like coffee shops, libraries, offices. Previous attempts at keylogging VoIP calls achieved 91.7 percent top-5 accuracy over Skype in 2017 and 74.3 percent accuracy in VoIP calls in 2018.

  • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They used an iPhone 13 mini, 17 cm away, to record the keyboard’s audio for their first test. For the second test, they recorded the laptop keys over Zoom, using the MacBook’s built-in microphones, with Zoom’s noise suppression set to its lowest level. In both tests, they were able to achieve higher than 93 percent accuracy, with the phone-recorded audio edging closer to 95-96 percent.

    So it can be listened to by a nearby device or over zoom it seems.