No password is safe, it would appear, since anyone with a heat-detecting camera can tell which keys your fingers have touched on your keyboard. — Photo: Oliver Berg/dpa
LONDON: No password is safe, it would appear, since anyone with a heat-detecting camera can tell which keys your fingers have touched on your keyboard.
Heat-detecting cameras can help crack passwords up to a minute after typing them, researchers have found, as they warn similar systems could be developed by criminals to break into computers and smartphones.
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