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Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
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[โ€“] Arfman@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Long time ago a friend of mine used a set of key press to generate a smiley face to put in his bios which ended up in a situation where he was not able to type in the same smiley face into the password prompt. I had to teach him to reset his bios battery to get back into the bios.

[โ€“] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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