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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Even if you take four words of a 30000 word list (quick Google says that's the number of words an average person knows), that's still less bits of entropy than a 5 word diceware password (7776 word list). People are also really bad at randomness, so your own string of random words is likely going to be much worse.

Thanks for the explanation. What's diceware?

It's the concept of literally using a die to choose with randomness (humans are terrible at trying to be random); a link with details is in a previous comment.