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So how do we fix this? Dumb nerds never think about the consequences of their creations.

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What a strange response.

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Sorry I can’t hear you over my jet engine case fans

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From the article: “Even knowing that Kamkar’s silent, invisible, long-distance laser spy trick exists, how does anyone hide their secrets from it? He suggests that companies install double-paned or reflective glass. Some security device companies also sell protection devices that affix to windows and vibrate them to prevent laser microphone spying, and Kamkar concedes he hasn’t tested his attack against those. But he also suggests a safer countermeasure: “Don’t work on computers visible from a window,” he says. “Or just have dirty windows.””

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Companies can’t even be convinced to have longer passwords on their wifi. And open office plans mean every computer faces a window

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Then companies deserved to be hacked. shrug

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Close the blinds

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At an office building where other people are inside the building with you? This is going to cause problems if it gets cheap enough

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Probably not because you can detect the beam with an iPhone camera.

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Oddly enough - all my keystrokes sound exactly the same which makes this person’s claim so much bullshit.

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Maybe to you, but with a proper algorithmic analysis of the sounds differences can be fingerprinted and differentiated.

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Riiiiiight…

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Make it a UV laser and it would be invisible.

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It’s already infrared. Also, UV is partially visible to humans in some scenarios.

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demonstrating that he can point a laser that’s invisible to the human eye at a faraway laptop, through a window, and detect the computer’s vibrations to reconstruct virtually every character typed on it

Infrared is not visible

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Infrared is not visible

To humans

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Infrared doesn’t pass through windows.

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I’m not going to argue with you but you should read the article perhaps? It’s pretty specific about where the laser is aimed vis a vis windows and whatnot

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actually thats UV. transition lenses won’t change with a glass window thats not open. infrared is basically heat and does indeed pass through. Cars in the sun would not get hot so fast if they did not let in infrared.

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It is visible to security cameras

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Ahh ok, that’s what you meant before I guess

Since that function is usually meant for night vision, I wonder how well a security camera can pick out the laser during the day i.e. when the IR sensors are being swamped by daylight also coming in through the window

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Laughs in DVORAK. This is some pretty funny Schitzotroll.

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it’s heuristic, so it doesn’t matter what layout you use.

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Ah fuuck

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Dude in the thumbnail looks like an un-and-coming Bond villain.

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Dude in the thumbnail is Samy. He’s been a bond villain for a long time now.

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