Online security is more serious than ever, as we’ve seen with large companies becoming victims of breaches. It can be difficult to remember all your passwords since you’re encouraged to switch them up for each site and device. Password security is about to get more fun and creative. New security software is going to make it possible to use emojis as passwords instead of numbers, letters and keyboard symbols, which will be more secure than traditional 4-digit PINS.

Why Emojis as password a Good Idea?

😎Easier to remember

We remember visual information quicker and better comparing to text.

😎More Secure

Right now, very few hackers👨🏾‍💻 assume that you have an Emoji in your password. They are not including Emojis in brute-force vocabularies which reduces your potential to be hacked tremendously.

Obviously, it will change when using Emojis in passwords will become popular. But still, using even a single Emoji in addition to a characters or/and numbers makes the range of possible passwords wider, which means it becomes harder to hack.
Emoji in Password - High Password Strength
PasswordMeter is an online tool that gives a score for how hard a password is for hacking. Here are some examples of passwords scores:

  • 4 (single number) — 3%
  • $ (single character) — 10%
  • 🙂 (single Emoji)20%
  • T4 (combination of letter and number) — 14%
  • 🙂✌️ (combination of two Emojis) —44%

Less mainstream products with a tech-savvy audience like Parse, Quora, Twilio, HN, DN, StackExchange, StackOverflow, Slack (+ Twitter) are handling Emoji-passwords perfectly whereas accounts in Gmail, Facebook, Outlook, iCloud (the web-interface) doesn’t allow using Emojis in the password yet..

Developers are always more likely to be early adopters, so if you think about it, this is exactly the kind of services you would expect doing something a little bit more innovative and geekier👍.

Try using Emojis when you’re creating new accounts on web-services. If it works – start using it✌️ if not, wait for them to adopt it.

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