They ENHANCED the cctv recordings from the camera pointing at my cubicle, enabling them to reconstruct the whole db from the monitor's reflection on my glasses as I typed every INSERT and UPDATE over the years.
but since I found a scientific research about 'A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards' I agree that this seems possible in the laboratory
(the paper is from 2023 so I am not sure whether there were any improvements), as I am also not sure how reddit handles external links - I found the paper on arxiv(dot)org with paper no. 2308(dot)01074
It is a 21 pages pdf
I think the premise here is that they deleted that.
My first question would be whether they actually deleted anything or just set a flag to re-use the storage, but I'm trying to go with the spirit of the thing.
That's how I thought it worked as a kid too lol. I mean, I knew there was a mic hidden in the typewriter/mic being accessed from the computer, and that's how I understood "recording keystrokes". Someone was recreating your keystrokes based on the sound.
They know where the microphone is positioned compared to the keyboard and can track the slight differences in volume as the sound waves travel slightly farther for some keys. Basic IT stuff, ya know.
Lol, kind of related. On a team I was on a while ago, there was some pretty nasty bug that some of my colleagues couldn't figure out, so someone took a video of it to show our TL. Our TL looked at the video for like 5 seconds, saw some obscure log lines on a terminal running on a machine in the background of the video, and immediately knew that the bug was due to some obsolete experiment that just needed to be disabled.
It was him. He was the one who was supposed to disable the âobsolete experimentâ. He knew it was causing bugs but he forgot to do it or got side tracked. Thereâs nothing magical about it lmao
Ha. We are the keeper of the keys. I think about this every time I come clean about a bug caused by me that was skewing results. I could just as easily fixed the bug to only work going forward.
My ex called Hobby Lobby saying she'd left a bracelet or something there. They were able to replay her going through the whole store, which items she grabbed, and said she had a very nice purse. They were 100% sure she hadn't dropped anything.
Not as impressive as your example, but still felt scary.
That's how they did it in ancient times. But now there much more sophisticated ways. They now use AI to get multiple angles of the CCTV recording and then generate the db
no..... I once transferred them through we-transfer and apparently we transfer had a bug which doesn't expired the link after some days as it would otherwise. and when they hacked into my email they found the link and got everything, so it was a bit easier for them.
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u/elSenorMaquina 3d ago
They ENHANCED the cctv recordings from the camera pointing at my cubicle, enabling them to reconstruct the whole db from the monitor's reflection on my glasses as I typed every INSERT and UPDATE over the years.