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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Security expert reveals surprising way to induce headaches

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

So you've set your password to contain a 😇 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?

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

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.