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Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

am already use:

._.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Classic old school manual emojis.

Emoticons for you kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Okay now's my time to shine. The words "emoji" and "emoticon" are false cognates, as in they aren't actually related. Emoticon is a few-decade old word to describe emotion+icon, like :)

Emoji is Japanese (kanji - 絵文字) for picture-word, basically. It super outdates computers.

They just happen to sound similar; isn't that fun?