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Salamendacious@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis

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Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis

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Salamendacious@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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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.
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    I said only one that matters. So I already did pick one. It’s called Unicode.

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      UTF-8 and UTF-16 pretty much do everything, but if you have a UTF-16 emoji in a UTF-8 system, you’ll have a bad day. :(

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        Those are encodings, not character sets.

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          IANA calls them character sets, it’s literally in the URL twice, that’s good enough for me!

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        No need to tell us how you feel every day

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