And Now For Something Straight Out of James Bond
Many of you will have heard of keyloggers - those nasty little trojans that sneak into your machine and record every key you press, convert it to code and then email it to some far away place so that people can steal your secrets.
Well keylogging has just taken on a whole new look and has moved into the realm of the almost unbelievable.
It seems that the sounds from typing on a computer keyboard are distinctive enough to be decoded. That means that you don’t access to someone’s computer to know what they’re typing. All you need is a microphone close enough to pick up the sounds if the keys being depressed.
Researchers at the University of California are claiming an accuracy rate of 96% and that includes overcoming background nose from music, talk, ringing phones etc.
Now on one level that raises some very interesting security concerns but on another level I wonder how many people hit the backspace key more frequently than any of the other keys?
It has to be one of my favourite keys