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🎤⌨️ Acoustic keyboard eavesdropping
18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 7 stories, 11 comments · first 2018-11-29 · latest 2026-10-14
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https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio is probably the best-known one. The amusing aspect is that this is so easy that multiple good ways someone could hobby program this long before AI was a thing. The sound of a bunch of keypresses may…
comment by jerf · 2026-10-14 · in OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room -
Talking of smart people, check out Georgi Gerganov's keyboard audio tools: https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio He's subsequently well known for llama.cpp.
comment by nmstoker · 2024-08-13 · in Open source laser microphone picks up laptop keystrokes -
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Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdroppingstory by behnamoh · 2024-05-11 · 0 comments
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https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio It's quite good at decoding my own typing, although I am a quite aggressive typist and that may help. I haven't tried it on others, though (honest, officer).
comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2023-08-29 · in Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1) -
…same techniques before that. This one is interesting to me, now, considering who the author is. [0] https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio
comment by mmcwilliams · 2023-08-08 · in AI can identify passwords by sound of keys being pressed, study suggests -
Georgi Gerganov created one a few years ago https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio
comment by ariym · 2023-08-05 · in New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy -
> Acoustic keyboard eavesdropping — ggerganov/kbd-audio https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio?ref=scopeofwork.net
comment by bookofjoe · 2023-05-15 · in Keytap: Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdropping -
…your mouth. Kind of like how it’s possible to eavesdrop from just the sound of keyboard clicks: https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio
comment by lachlan_gray · 2023-04-24 · in MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad -
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Keytap2 – acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on language n-gram frequenciesstory by tontonius · 2023-03-31 · 0 comments
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Acoustic Keyboard Eavesdroppingstory by taubek · 2022-05-16 · 61 comments
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You can be spied with a microphone: https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio
comment by GoblinSlayer · 2021-12-17 · in Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal? -
…attacks based on working out the sound of each key on a keyboard and then guessing keystrokes - https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio
comment by intunderflow · 2021-11-18 · in How we protect our most sensitive secrets from the most determined attackers -
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Show HN: Keytap2 – acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on n-gram frequenciesstory by ggerganov · 2020-12-14 · 39 comments
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…author has the same experience: if the keyboard is not mechanical, then this library doesn’t work: https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio/issues/3
comment by carbocation · 2018-12-02 · in Guessing the pressed keyboard keys by analyzing the audio from the microphone -
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Guessing the pressed keyboard keys by analyzing the audio from the microphonestory by Osiris30 · 2018-11-30 · 33 comments
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Kbd-audio – Tools for capturing and analysing keyboard input paired withstory by pplonski86 · 2018-11-29 · 0 comments
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Real-Time Capturing Exact Keystrokes Using Soundstory by foobaw · 2018-11-29 · 0 comments
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I've been working on a similar tool: https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio (see the 'keytap' tool). Not sure how well it works yet, as I have made tests only with my setup. There is a live page that anyone can experiment with.
comment by ggerganov · 2018-11-29 · in Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH (2001) [pdf]