Comment by prmoustache
6 months ago
How many people with a loud mechanical keyboard shut their microphone to type a password whem sharing their screen in an audio/video call?
6 months ago
How many people with a loud mechanical keyboard shut their microphone to type a password whem sharing their screen in an audio/video call?
A good life hack I figured out is to smear your laptop camera and microphone with sticky tack, not to totally disable them but to insufferably degrade them, then after a few attempts you can be excused from the expectation of ever appearing on video calls and can disable both permanently.
If you start by hitting backspace a few times and/or typing random characters and deleting them (to make sure the keyboard's working and sending your inputs where you think) it should obscure the length somewhat.
I was not thinking about the length but the actual keypress recognition. If you have enough recording of all kind of keypresses many keys/characters can be recognized from the waveform itself, including the backspace and delete ones.
I doubt this is a super common threat but I would expect it to be already applied by spies or "Jia Tan" like employees.
Hitting Home, End and Ins would "add" another 3 characters yet would not change the password. A full 100+ keyboard needed.