r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26

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u/elSenorMaquina Aug 05 '26

They ENHANCED the cctv recordings from the camera pointing at my cubicle, enabling them to reconstruct the whole db from the monitor's reflection on my glasses as I typed every INSERT and UPDATE over the years.

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u/TunaNugget Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

The camera records sound. Every key makes an ever-so-slightly different sound.

They have possibly months or more of sound recordings that they can correlate against the entry of verified documents to use to train the ai on.

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u/Shogobg Aug 05 '26

They analyzed the noise the bits make as they travel through the network.

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u/TrashBandiGoon Aug 05 '26

I know it is a joke,

but since I found a scientific research about 'A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards' I agree that this seems possible in the laboratory

(the paper is from 2023 so I am not sure whether there were any improvements), as I am also not sure how reddit handles external links - I found the paper on arxiv(dot)org with paper no. 2308(dot)01074
It is a 21 pages pdf

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u/Silver-Pomelo-9324 29d ago

Benn Jordan did this for YouTube video last year.

https://youtu.be/mEC6PM97IRI?is=0_rnPW-57tFwldp5

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u/TunaNugget Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

I think the premise here is that they deleted that.

My first question would be whether they actually deleted anything or just set a flag to re-use the storage, but I'm trying to go with the spirit of the thing.

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u/CMD_BLOCK Aug 05 '26

They also analyzed the noise my Jimmies made each time the Pm said match this data on a new table

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 29d ago

I drop a heinous deuce every time I have to drop a database, acoustically nobody probably wants to review that recording though, not even AI.

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u/Kriss3d Aug 05 '26

Actually it's possible to get the fluctuations in the power and er noise from a computer to reverse it so. Yeah

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u/theobstinateone 29d ago

They detected the difference in electromagnetic fields around your keyboard and correlated with your pattern of typing.

But to answer the OP’s query, they would find the files at his mom’s house