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Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 10 months ago

It's all just Unicode so in theory a password system shouldn't think that emoji or any more interesting than any other character. To a computer the letter B and the emoji ✈️ equivalent in that they're both just normal characters that one can type.

Sort of, emoji are usually treated as two or more normal characters so ✈️ might be equivalent to BB. But the basic point is the same.