YOU PROBABLY USE emojis while texting, and even online, but would you use them in a password?

A company called Intelligent Environments has launched the world’s first emoji-only passcode, which it says is “mathematically more secure and easier to remember than traditional passcodes”.

Intelligent Environments is a UK company that was inspired by the fact that, according to a survey it undertook, a third of people in Britain had forgotten their PINs before.

Its emoji passcode means that users can log into their bank accounts using four emoji characters, rather than traditional PINs or passwords.

Here’s a video of it in action. (Can’t see the video? Click here)

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You can choose from a bank of 44 emojis. While traditional PINs have 7,290 unique permutations of four non-repeating numbers, with an emoji passcode you get a whopping 3,498,308 million unique permutations of non-repeating emojis.

The emoji passcode is also something that came about thanks to younger customers, with Intelligent Environments saying that “the younger generation is communicating in new ways”, with millennials particularly fond of emojis.

However, NPR spoke to a professor at Carnegie Mellon who’s an expert on cybersecurity and passwords, Lorrie Cranor, who said it was “fun” but she is “not sure it’s a big breakthrough” or more secure than traditional PINs.

Would you use an emoji passcode?

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