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.

  • IsoKieroEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • PlexSheep@feddit.de
      8·
      1 year ago

      Longer passwords make your passwords exponentially more secure, in terms of security bits. Length matters.

      • IsoKieroEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        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).

    • PupBiru@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

    • ____@infosec.pub
      1·
      1 year ago

      Those two have burned me. Had my work laptop pw using them, was all well and good until the external keyboard broke and I was left trying to figure out how to enter characters not on my keyboard, without being able to alt-numberpad the code for it.