Lots of rumours on the Net today that Time-Warner is about to do a deal with Microsoft to merge AOL and MSN. And Google raised $4.18 billion in its second public offering. What will they do with it? My guess: something in the financial services area. Oh and Toshiba have released an updated version of the Libretto, the nicest sub-notebook computer ever made.
Daily Archives: September 15, 2005
Does your typing give you away?
According to a forthcoming conference paper by some Berkeley researchers, a ten-minute audio recording of a someone typing text on a standard computer keyboard can be analysed to recover up to 96% of the text typed. Works for passwords too, since you ask. For a plain-English explanation of how it’s done, see here.