even the dogs are anti communist
even the garbage cans!
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anti object taskforce assemble :lt-dbyf-dubois:
Object permanence is a bourgeois lie to create a foundation for property rights
Yeah but 1984 is when women have blue hair and tell you not to say slurs.
1984 is when women have blue hair and tell you not to
say slursfrantically hack slurs into your mechanical typewriter1984 is when women have blue hair and
tell you not to say slurs frantically hack slurs into your mechanical typewriteredit audio of you using your typewriter, changing the letter sounds to make it seem like you were typing slurs
I spent the past 10 minutes listening to like several different typewriters from 1900 to 1960s and their keystrokes all sound the same as the other keystrokes.
U WOT M8! OI HAM A BYE-OH-LOGI-CALL CUMPOOTER! SHUDD YER GAB HUP BEE FOOR OI SHUDD ID FER YEH OI SWEAH OON ME MUM
I've even seen people use the EMF generated by the USB cord, no microphone required!
yep. it's absolutely wild what people can do. I saw a POC attack that used the overhead light in a room to spy on a conversation from outside, looking into the window.
That's actually why I think security through obscurity gets a bad rap.
You should ALSO do real security, but the fact is that even as there have been hacks of RSA, air gapped computers, etc etc, we still haven't decrypted the Zodiac Killer's letters or whatever. And there's also a puzzle in the halls of the NSA that has gone unsolved for decades.
oh. yeah, I figured the meaning was clear from context. thank you, comrade!
And there’s also a puzzle in the halls of the NSA that has gone unsolved for decades.
The messages on that thing are fucking wild.
Pretty sure that’s only useful if you had the typewriter in front if you at some point and intimate knowledge of typewriters in an office setting, so literally no one?
With linguistic analysis if every sound is identifiable, you can do letter frequency analysis :shrug-outta-hecks: prolly even allows for some fuzziness in interpretation
There are weird hiccups, like typewriters not being professionally serviced regularly which throws of any degree of consistency. Keys will stick, levers will vary in their action, you’ll have to regularly map out interpretations once you catch drift happening.
It’s easier to steal letters.
The thing to remember is basically any privacy or security attempts are not full proof. A determined enough attacker with enough resources may eventually be able to untangle you.
This is true with computers and evidently typewriters as well.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't be as secure as possible though.
There is such a thing as a laser microphone that you can point at a glass window and hear the conversation inside based on measurements of the vibrating glass. The algorithms just keep getting better, stuxnet already found ways to cross the air gap. Sweet, man-made horrors beyond comprehension.
As a puzzle loving nerd, definitely not only feds know this stuff. I know I'm not the only one who spends his whole time at the airport pinpointing weaknesses of their security
This, would see this sort of stuff on usernet even back in the 90s as a child. There was an article in the past few years about how this could be used to 'hack' the US supposed hard-core unhackable offline, floppy drive pushing windows 3.1 rig army.
Going to second as a morbid person that's my favorite airport game, its even better when you can play it as a group and get concerned looks from security/randoms.
Lol one time I ran a laptop through security and they checked my shoes, so my mom was asking "yeah but couldn't the detonator be in MY shoes?" to the tsa goons
PC keyboards send a distinctly different electrical signal for each key and that's what TEMPEST picks up
Nah, it's definitely possible. I know someone who did an audio only analysis of mechanical keyboard input and was able to reproduce the text
they can track the penstrokes. The real trick is to just not ever say or write anything, maybe just don't think it.
Play a recording of other people typing on keyboards while writing with pen and paper
play music while you work drown it out in noise that would probably also help with the typewriter issue
for thoughts and spoken word maybe, but I;m talking about watching the movement of the top of the pen, which can be reversed to reveal what was written.
well that's a line of sight issue you could also probably just erect some kind of wall from books
And you can probably use machine learning models to do all kinda of stuff like this by just training on data that you do yourself.
