British researchers have managed to recognize a person’s password by simply making an AI listen to the sound of the keyboard.
With the advent of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence has become a technology that has quickly established itself in many areas, even among delinquents. Many scams using AI have thus been developed, such as one which consists of cloning a person’s voice to pretend to be them and asking for money. But the danger of AI could be even wider than expected.
AI could “listen” to your password
It’s not a particularly pleasant experience. British researchers have just shown that it was possible to use AI to know a person’s password, simply by listening to the keystrokes while writing said password.
To carry out their demonstration, they trained an AI by teaching it the sound of each key on the keyboard and relating it to a letter. They then placed a smartphone next to the keyboard to record the sound of keystrokes, which they then had the AI decipher. As a result, it was able to find the dead man in 95% of cases!
Use all 10 fingers when typing on the keyboard
The most worrying thing is that this technique also seems to work in a “real situation”. This method was tested during video conferences on Zoom or Skype. And here again, the success rate is particularly high, around 92% for tests on Skype and 93% for those on Zoom.
To avoid suffering from this problem in the future, researchers have several tips for the public. The first is typing with 10 fingers, which would tend to reduce the AI’s ability to recognize key sounds. Including lowercase and uppercase letters as well as special characters in the password also helps.
Source : PCworld