The shocking way to to make your password stronger

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“When intruders try to brute-force a password containing letters, numbers and punctuation marks, there are fewer than a hundred variations for each symbol they need to pick.”

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“But there are more than 3,600 standardized emojis in Unicode, so adding one to your password forces hackers to go through around 3,700 variants per symbol.”

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“Of course, using emojis is no substitute for traditional security tips: using long passwords, a password manager and two-factor authentication (2FA).”

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