Tap, tap, tap - there goes your password

Researchers at UC Berkeley have now proved that, using a device as simple as a $10 microphone, software can learn to recognize the sound of keystrokes as they're typed, and reveal the characters with 96 percent accuracy. Worst of all, in this era of needing passwords to access all sorts of things online, there's no good way to stop it.

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