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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 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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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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    58•2 years ago

    Terrible idea, good luck logging in on desktop.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      40•2 years ago

      You know there’s someone somewhere who would answer you with, “what’s a desktop?”

      • Zellith
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        “what’s a computer?”

        • @[email protected]
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          9•2 years ago

          Listen here, you little shit

        • @[email protected]B
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          6•2 years ago

          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          “what’s a computer?”

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

        • @[email protected]
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          2•2 years ago

          Dammit I’d forgotten that awful commercial. Angry upvote.

      • @[email protected]
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        4•2 years ago

        I’m still in denial 😅

      • @[email protected]
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        3•2 years ago

        I began feeling old when re**itors started calling their site an ‘app’

        • @[email protected]OP
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          1•2 years ago

          You can say Reddit it isn’t blasphemous

      • Zellith
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        deleted by creator

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      Wait, you can’t type emoji on your desktop? I feel sorry for you. 🥺

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 years ago

        I have no idea how you could either. I don’t know how to create them with s keyboard

        • @[email protected]
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          4•2 years ago

          Winkey + .

          Works on Windows and some Linux distros by default

        • lemmyvore
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          2•2 years ago

          Firefox has an addon that opens up an emoji panel.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike
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      For Windows 10/11, its win+; to open the emote window.

      • @[email protected]
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        Cmd+Ctrl+Spacebar on Mac

        • @[email protected]
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          0•2 years ago

          Huh! TIL ☺

      • @[email protected]
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        2•2 years ago

        That doesn’t work on the desktop last I checked.

        But it’s actually possible to set a password with emojis anyways (or at least for domain accounts). I successfully logged in on a VM using the Hyper-V window and pasting the emoji from the host. You can also name an account a single emoji and windows actually handles it decently. It’s very likely to break a lot of programs though.

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          It worked on my desktop

          😁👍╰(°▽°)╯

          Works even in notepad on Windows 11, lol

          • @[email protected]
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            1•2 years ago

            Oh I meant the lock screen, sorry. As far as I know it works everywhere except the lock screen.

            • WalrusDragonOnABike
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              oh, I never tried. There goes that option. Wonder if that was intention to prevent people from trying to use emoji passwords because they didn’t trust windows to handle it.

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                1•2 years ago

                It’s probably just because the emoji panel is a program and the lock screen has very limited or any capabilities to run any programs. And trying to make it the emoji panel to function on the lock screen is pretty much a waste of time anyways.

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          Its worked on desktops for years and works right now. As someone else pointed out “win+.” works as well. Or maybe its supposed to be the only way it works and mine is bugged? Idk. I found it via trying to lock my desktop and mistyping.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 years ago

        It’s Windows logo key  + . (period).

        https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-keyboard-tips-and-tricks-588e0b72-0fff-6d3f-aeee-6e5116097942

        • WalrusDragonOnABike
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          Both work for me and I haven’t messed with the keybindings for it.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 years ago

        Who needs Reddit when people like you are here on Lemmy.

    • sverit
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      1•2 years ago

      Under Windows press Win+.

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