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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 · 2 years ago

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

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