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17 June 2015 - 02:11
By ©The Daily Telegraph

Emoji passwords, allowing people to log into their banks using four emoji characters, are said to provide greater security than traditional PINs or passwords. The characters are selected from a bank of 44 emoji. Intelligent Environments, the UK company behind the system, said emoji are mathematically more secure than four-digit pass codes, with 480 times more permutations.

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