It turns out that emoticons are considered a symbol, so they can beef up your passwords and make them more secure in combination with letters and numbers. Here’s how.
  • Killing_Spark@feddit.deEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    That's just security by obscurity. It's one other strategy of choosing passwords that a bruteforce attack is going to try if it gets popular

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      That's not what security by obscurity means. And going by your definition, all passwords are security by obscurity.