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
    221·
    3 years 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?

      • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

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

      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
        33·
        3 years 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 …

          • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            3 years ago

            What if I am using a device that doesn’t support emojis? wouldn’t I need to learn the code for each emoji I have used in a password?

          • Droechai@lemm.eeEnglish
            23·
            3 years ago

            Just like a gun is standardized to a water gun for some and a real gun for others?

            Edit: I get your point, ita just if you memorize your password with emoji icons different icons would screw up your tries to log in