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Emoji Advantage in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity experts have revealed that many apps now allow the use of emoji’s in passwords, and doing so comes with a significant advantage.

Computers treat emoji as they do letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, which means they can be used to strengthen passwords. According to Stan Kaminsky, a cybersecurity expert at Kaspersky, password-cracking becomes more challenging for intruders when emojis are involved, while there are less than one hundred variations for each symbol in passwords.

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