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Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis (nypost.com)
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[โ€“] Aceticon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grab a sentence you know well.

Pick just the first letter of each word.

It will look like it's random - for example "I like my lemmy only with beans and bacon" becomes "ilmlowbab" - and it comes from a far vaster possibility space (ever possible sentence and it need not even make sense) than that of "words in the English language and derived words" so it's a lot harder to try to crack with a dictionary attack.

Also it works in everything that takes ASCII charactes (i.e. everything but numeric only pin codes).