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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Idk exactly how accurate this is but seems valid

The colors on that are kinda confusing. 6tn years is yellow, but 2k years is green?

I wonder if this assumes the cracker knows how long etc the password is when they start cracking.

I always make my passwords "a" because I figure they'll start cracking attempts at 5 characters 😁

Why is 1,000 years yellow in that graph?

If a password can't be broke in 1,000 years it is utterly unbreakable in any effective sense of the term. No one's going to run the program for a thousand years because even if they did it wouldn't be relevant at the end of the process.

Hell even 51 years is pushing it.

Well, the rate passwords can be tested at now may not always be the rate passwords can be tested at later. Computers were, at one point, growing exponentially faster in terms of processing power. There are still several emerging technologies out there that could cause significant speed-ups.

It's certainly better to future-proof your passwords.

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