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.
  • kureta@lemmy.mlEnglish
    581·
    8 months ago

    Security expert reveals surprising way to induce headaches

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      151·
      8 months ago

      Security experts don’t actually have to work on corporate IT systems.

      So you’ve set your password to contain a 😇 have you?
      Ok so how are you going to type it on this desktop computer keyboard here…
      Yeah I thought not.

      I’ll just go reset your password shall I?

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          61·
          8 months ago

          I’ll let you be in charge of teaching them that. I literally had to talk someone through how to type an exclamation mark today, I don’t think they’re going to handle the extended Unicode character set.