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Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
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[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Security expert reveals surprising way to induce headaches

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

So you've set your password to contain a πŸ˜‡ 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?

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

win+. (works on kde too afaik...?)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year 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.