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.
  • snek_boi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    11 months 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
      15·
      11 months 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.

      • xorEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

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