The latest scoop is that AI can actually swipe people's passwords by just tuning into the sound of them typing on Zoom or even from typing on your smart phone.
Good grief, is nothing safe anymore?
From Daily Mail:
Academics from Durham, Surrey and Royal Holloway universities have shown that microphones can detect typing patterns, which suggests anyone using a laptop in public could have their typing recorded and decoded.
To prove their theory, they placed an iPhone 17cm away from the same MacBook to record someone typing, and were able to deduce the content of the typing with 95 per cent accuracy.
They also put Zoom to the test in the same way, which recorded the key strokes with an accuracy of 93 per cent.
Researchers trained an AI model by pressing the 36 keys on a MacBook Pro 25 times and recording the sound, before feeding it into the AI which was able to correctly identify the pattern of each key.
Dr Ehsan Toreini, from the Surrey University's Centre for Cyber Security, told The Times: 'Each key has a unique audio, or voice, that can be fingerprinted to infer what is being pressed.'
A similar study was done on an Enigma machine some years ago, which found that if it had been possible to implant a microphone, a similar outcome could have been achieved, but only with 70 per cent accuracy.
'It gives you a hint of the tremendous improvement that has happened in the past five years in terms of the accuracy of the models, which somehow elevated the accuracy from 70-ish per cent to around perfect results,' Dr Toreini added.
He suggested that Apple should consider adding random noises into keystrokes to ward off 'side channel' attacks, and that technology such as Zoom should compress audio.
I get that AI is this mind-blowing, ever-evolving technology that is going to supposedly advance our society.
But you gotta stop and think, is all this progress really worth the trade-off?
