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.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      22·
      1 year ago

      To make your password even safer, also add the penis hieroglyph (𓂸) which is censored on Windows.

      I can see it on Windows 10…

      Other than that, I love these ideas you evil bastard!

    • Knusper@feddit.de
      15·
      1 year ago

      To make your password even safer, also add the penis hieroglyph (𓂸) which is censored on Windows.

      When they’re asking you for an extra long password…

      • Acters@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        You could memorize how many emojis vs. a long number. Say you got 5 💀, 2 🇹🇼, 3 👀, and 7 💩 or take a special number like a pin and attribute emojis to each digit. Doesn’t matter how you remember it, password manager or not, the added digits are great to have as there are more symbols to crack. This makes common passwords less common as there is a possibility that there is a larger pool of common passwords that dilute the probability table.(“flattening” a bell curve) This is a smaller increase in the amount of work needed to go through a dictionary, custom made, standard, or list of leaked common passwords. However, it is beneficial to create large delays in password cracking for situations where the attack is done at a large scale vs. a targeted approach.

        Limiting to integer may not seem like a good idea, but the symbols and digits are all converted to binary either way. So instead of integers, why not just cut the middle man and just have it all be binary in the first place? 128 bits can provide 2^128 unique values to use. A computer can easily make a random number, and the use of a password manager can save it. After this, it turns into a key signing system, [cryptography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(cryptography\)). In the end, passwords are dumb and we want to use them because we like the feeling of knowing the secret magic phrase/word that can be easily be shared through most forms of communication, especially verbal.

        Sorry about the rant/brain dump. I just wrote whatever came to mind

  • federalreverse-old@feddit.de
    99·
    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.

    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.

    • Xartle@lemmy.ml
      56·
      1 year ago

      On the upside, you could probably satisfy length and complexity requirements with just one emoji. ;)

    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      17·
      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.

        • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          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

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      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 🤷

  • code@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    You can also use emojis in computer and user names in active directory. Trust me, the network guys love it!

  • Dandroid@dandroid.app
    20·
    1 year ago

    You can add emojis to your wifi SSID. I do not recommend it for compatibility reasons, though. Your printer might not like it.

    • Madis@lemm.ee
      6·
      1 year ago

      In my experience, several devices don’t display the emoji as a correct icon (instead show the rectangle “tofu”), but they still work with it.

      Source: am using an emoji with some normal characters on SSID

      • Dandroid@dandroid.app
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s good! That’s best case scenario, honestly. With how awful printers are, I wouldn’t be surprised if some just crashed.

    • superkret@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 year ago

      That’ll make setting up your wifi from the command line all kinds of fun.
      Even my SSID with , and : in it stumps the Debian installer.

        • voxel@sopuli.xyz
          31·
          1 year ago

          just plug the printer into your router or something like raspberry pi (or a pc that’s running constantly) with a usb cable if you need that

      • nikoof@feddit.ro
        201·
        1 year ago

        Internet access? Never. LAN access though is a different story altogether…

      • Dandroid@dandroid.app
        10·
        1 year ago

        It is very useful for your printer to have LAN access so you can print jobs wirelessly from your laptop.

        But printer was just an example of a low-tech device. It could have easily been your Nintendo 3DS that might implode if your SSID had an emoji in it.

    • Luccus@feddit.deOP
      40·
      1 year ago

      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

  • Shatur@lemmy.ml
    14·
    1 year ago

    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.