Thursday, September 22, 2005

CSci department chair interviewed on TV

Our CSci department chair, Dr.Walter Read, was interviewed on local TV news about whether someone can "listen" to you keyboard and figure out what you are typing.

Here is a link to the story and video:

http://www.cbs47.tv/consumeralert/story.aspx?content_id=15FA3F41-9002-4079-9E0F-A8D8E8572A18

The academic paper that started this discussion is:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acoustic_Emanations_Revisited/preprint.pdf