It turns out that emoticons are considered a symbol, so they can beef up your passwords and make them more secure in combination with letters and numbers. Here’s how.
  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    5818·
    1 year ago

    I’d rather staple my forehead to a telephone pole before I ever think about using an emoji in a password. Those things are abominations!

    • snek_boi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      211·
      1 year ago

      Out of curiosity, what makes you say so?

      Edit: Oh. Did a “Wooosh” happen to me right now? Are you being ironic and referring to the XKCD thing about how to make a secure password using words in phrases?

      • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        1 year ago

        I think OP is conflating the use of emojis in passwords with the use of emojis by the general public.

        Yes, it’s annoying to read stuff like “Hi 😃😃😃😃 I am Bob ♥️♥️♥️😎😎😎😎,” but that doesn’t mean that using them in passwords is a bad idea.

        • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Or that “hi 😊 I’m Bob” doesn’t express a (subtly) different meaning to “hi, I’m Bob”

        • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          Well they have to be the same on different devices, like you log in to Lemmy on your PC and then on your phone. Also sometimes it seems the icons change, or there are new ones and maybe old ones are removed …