Doug Tygar Quotes

We probably don't want to be relying on passwords as we do. - Doug Tygar

The message from this study is that there is no easy escape from this acoustic snooping. The type of keyboard you use doesn't matter, your typing proficiency doesn't matter, and the background noise can be overcome. - Doug Tygar

The keyboard is a little like a conga drum. - Doug Tygar

Once our algorithm has ten minutes' worth of typed English, it can recover arbitrary text, such as passwords. - Doug Tygar

It's a form of acoustical spying that should raise red flags among computer security and privacy experts. If we were able to figure this out, it's likely that people with less honorable intentions can Ã¢â‚¬â€ or have Ã¢â‚¬â€ as well. - Doug Tygar

I think the music industry will have a strong challenge working in these kinds of environments. - Doug Tygar

I don't think it's very hard for people to put this together, but I don't want to make it easy for people, either. - Doug Tygar

Background noise definitely made it harder to recover accurate text, but the differences became smaller after several rounds of feedback. Given enough tries, the computer algorithm will eventually come up with a pretty good estimate of the text that was typed. - Doug Tygar

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