New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy

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New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy::A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%.

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Does the research presume the use of a qwerty keyboard?

It uses the sounds it records and compares again the messages you send. So in theory it's layout agnostic.