You can totally use emojis as passwords. You can probably even make this a policy at your company.

Edit: I thought this was an obvious enough joke, but just to clear things up: Only do this if you hate your company and everyone working there.

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    And here I am avoiding even special characters because I worry about having to enter them on a French keyboard at some point.

    I use only special characters that are on the same places with most layouts (at least english and finnish). I suppose passwords with ä or ö might be a bit more resistant to brute-force attacks, but it causes far more problems than it might theoretically solve.

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      Longer passwords make your passwords exponentially more secure, in terms of security bits. Length matters.

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        True, and for most credentials I of course use password manager, but things like workstation password are still something I need to manually type out and for those 65 random characters aren’t really practical. And for those I use things like ‘HorseBattery69+’ instead of ‘SalainenSäläsänä69+’ since while they (could be) equally long and complex the latter is pretty much impossible to type out if keyboard setting is something else than finnish (swedish works too I think).

    • ö and ä can be risky because there are multiple ways in which they can be encoded. ä can either be the backwards compatible “a with umlaut” or it can be “a” + joiner + “diaeresis”. Software is supposed to normalise this, but it you’ve ever used a non-Latin character in your Windows username you’ll realise how little software actually bothers to normalise input.

      That means you can run into things like “if I enter my password on my PC it works, but if I enter it on my phone it doesn’t, unless I use this specific keyboard app”.

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      also nothing that looks the same for the annoying time when you do have to do some analog copying

      no I, l, or | and i usually avoid ‘, “, !, /, \ (which one was it again?) and a few others that i have set in my password manager