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You can use emojis as credentials (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You can totally use emojis as passwords. You can probably even make this a policy at your company.

Edit: I thought this was an obvious enough joke, but just to clear things up: Only do this if you hate your company and everyone working there.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

An emoji is hard to remember if you need to type them with an alt code, while also being easy to crack.

I hope you meant “easier to crack than to remember it's ALT code”*

They're significantly harder to crack than most other characters, simply as there are much more of them than letters and numbers combined.

For a computer, and emoji is nothing else than a character.

This isn't really true either, they're always composed of 4 or more bytes, which to a computer is 4 or more characters.