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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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    Completely useless from many sources where I have to rely on a keyboard for entering passwords.

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      Most modern OSes feature emoji pickers though

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        Mac os and windows? I haven’t seen it on my Mac but maybe on windows? Those are pretty modern. I haven’t seen it in Linux either now that I think of it.

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          there is a “Characters” app in Gnome that lets you pick emojis

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          win+. will bring it up in windows

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          Yup, macOS has one too.

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          Ctrl + ; should bring up an emoji picker in Linux when you have focused a text field

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        What part of the word “Keyboard” did you not understand?

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          Idk, mine can. https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_unicode

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            As it said in the document: With a little help from your OS. So I want to log into lemm.ee from another persons computer. I do have not my own keyboard, I neither have my additional drivers or extensions or whatever. Oops. No login.

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