keyboard sniffing video question

[larry at pauldotcom.com (Larry Pesce)]

Ahh, I get it.

as in, how did the monitoring know when to stop?  They could have  
typed forever, and you are saying ot would have likely stoped after 8  
or 12 characters.  What was the terminator to stop the listening.

Certainly an opportunity for shenanigans.

- L

On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Robin Wood wrote:

> I was actually meaning the opposite, they typed in 12 characters and
> their system recognised exactly 12 characters before it left listening
> mode and started processing, the second one it stopped listening after
> 8 characters. With interference it would have to be very precise to
> know that it had hit exactly the right amount of characters it was
> expecting and it looks like it can only listen or process, not both at
> the same time. This may just be because it is a prototype  but
> something just didn't quite ring true about it.
>
> Robin
>
> 2008/11/26 Paul Asadoorian <paul at pauldotcom.com>:
> > It seems to me that there is a potential for a lot of interference  
> > with
> > this experiment that would make it behave differently in real life.
> > Could this account for the extra characters?  Possibly...  Anyone  
> > else
> > have any thoughts on this one?
> >
> > Robin Wood wrote:
> > > I've just watched a couple of videos on the keyboard sniffing and
> > > looking at the software it was wondering how it knew when to start
> > > decoding. The screen showed a list of collecting key messages then
> > > decoding messages. The first video was 8 characters (password) the
> > > second 12. It could have been hardcoded for the demo but it seems a
> > > little odd.
> > >
> > > I'd like to believe it is true but this just makes me question it  
> > > a little bit.
> > >
> > > Robin
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- L

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