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Lewis Maddison

This AI tool can steal your data just by listening to what keys you press

Person writing on computer.

New research has revealed a novel way to steal sensitive information - by working out what a target has typed via the sound of key presses alone. 

A team at Cornell University has published a paper detailing their exploits, offering, in its words, "a practical implementation of a state-of-the-art deep learning model in order to classify laptop keystrokes, using a smartphone integrated microphone."

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