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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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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · vor 2 Jahren

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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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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