Lumifer comments on Open thread for December 17-23, 2013 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: ciphergoth 17 December 2013 08:45PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 20 December 2013 05:46:58AM 1 point [-]

If the attacker can run code on your device, a keylogger is a much simpler solution.

Comment author: Pentashagon 20 December 2013 06:06:19AM 2 points [-]

I think it is probably simpler to enable the microphone from a web or mobile application than to install a keylogger in the OS. But then if you consider acoustic keyloggers...

Comment author: ChristianKl 20 December 2013 03:21:56PM 0 points [-]

With an acoustic keylogger you could scoop the my KeePass password but the actual passwords that I use to log into websites.

Comment author: Baughn 21 December 2013 11:11:27PM 1 point [-]

Not if it's sandboxed, but then timing and other side-channel attacks are still easier than using the mike.