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.
And here I am avoiding even special characters because I worry about having to enter them on a French keyboard at some point.
Do be aware that a single emoji is often composed of multiple Unicode characters (e.g. base emoji + gender modifier + skin tone modifier). Entering that on the command line is going to be fun.
On the upside, you could probably satisfy length and complexity requirements with just one emoji. ;)
And here I am avoiding even special characters because I worry about having to enter them on a French keyboard at some point.
I use only special characters that are on the same places with most layouts (at least english and finnish). I suppose passwords with ä or ö might be a bit more resistant to brute-force attacks, but it causes far more problems than it might theoretically solve.
Longer passwords make your passwords exponentially more secure, in terms of security bits. Length matters.
True, and for most credentials I of course use password manager, but things like workstation password are still something I need to manually type out and for those 65 random characters aren’t really practical. And for those I use things like ‘HorseBattery69+’ instead of ‘SalainenSäläsänä69+’ since while they (could be) equally long and complex the latter is pretty much impossible to type out if keyboard setting is something else than finnish (swedish works too I think).
also nothing that looks the same for the annoying time when you do have to do some analog copying
no I, l, or | and i usually avoid ‘, “, !, /, \ (which one was it again?) and a few others that i have set in my password manager
that happened to me :/
i couldn’t login using AZERTY. i thought i fucked up and forgotten my password but no, same letter was encoded as a different character in 2 different languages 🤷
Can’t wait for websites to require an emoji in your password /s
you won’t have to wait https://neal.fun/password-game/
Please, don’t use subjects like “I love this”. Please.
Fair point, will do… at some point in the future.
Edit #1: You people are expecting way too much reasonability from someone using emojis to login.
Edit #2: Urgh! FINE. Have your sensible title that actually means something and betters everyones experience. angrily sips water >:(
Are you aware you can edit titles?
Wait, lemmy allows editing of titles?
Should have edited it to a bunch of emojis…
You can also use emojis in computer and user names in active directory. Trust me, the network guys love it!
Anything Unicode. You could use box drawing characters.
The Interrogator: “You think you’re so funny… WHAT. IS. THE. PASSWORD!!!”
A guy, tied to a chair, bloodied and crying: “Amogus, it’s a drawing of the Amogus guy.”
The interrogator prepares another round of fists
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c/TIHI
this is useless unless you can copy/paste or autofill your passwords
You’re not using a password manager?
don’t you ever need access to one of your accounts from a machine other than what you have in your pocket?
I have Bitwarden installed on all my devices
other than a device you own, i mean
I would recommend generating your passwords and storing them in a local password manager like KeePassXC. This way, you only need to remember one password from the database itself and you will not worry if any website leaks its database since all your passwords are unique.
This is a password for logging into the system. So pre-password manager. Reminds me that I need to setup myself a Yubikey FIDO2 login
Someone has been playing too much of the password game.
Afaik, emoticons…er…sorry, emojis are (mostly) dictionary words. And using most (if not all) as passwords is a one-way ticket to “wtf happened to my work PC and why my boss wants to kill me”-land.
Edit: I thought this was an obvious enough joke towards your obvious enough joke – just “outjoking” your joke. :^)
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Literal mental pain rn
Yes, you can use emoji, but wouldn’t it be better to use special characters instead? At least is 100% sure to be supported in all modern devices.
Hah! Lots of (shitty) sites don’t allow some “special” characters, like '. That’s usually a sign that they’re storing passwords insecurely, and it’s always a sign that they’re not following current security best practices (composition rules reduce security).
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