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
    5814·
    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
      191·
      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
        122·
        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
          3·
          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
          33·
          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 …

          • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            Emojis are standardized. They may look different in different devices, but the code of a “raised hands” emoji will always be the same, just like the code for A is always the same.

            Removing old ones could be a problem, though.

            • Droechai@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              1 year 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

            • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              1 year 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?

              • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                Yes

                But how many modern devices don’t somehow support emojis though?

                And how many of those you need to enter a password in?