Greatly decreases your chances to enter it from different devices
You guys use passwords without a password manager in 2026?
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Use a password manager. Use the longest possible password the site will allow. Create a passkey and store it in the password manager if the site supports passkeys. Enable 2FA.
It’s not about which characters you use, it’s about how long of a password you use. “correct horse battery staple” and all that.
Second the PWM, but use 2FA or passkeys with a set of duplicate Yubikeys instead. Even with just 2FA TOTP codes, they are stored on the physical key. I have 4 of them in different places all duplicated. I sleep soundly at night lol
Accounts are rarely brute forced these days.
It’s almost always a leaked, unsalted hash table.
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U people use passwords without the full utf8 table?
I once tried using null on my password, went as well as expected
That’s all fine and dandy until your app decides to default to ISO-8859-1.
Happened at work. Customers could log in via web or use an email client. On the website we used UTF-8. But depending on operating system settings the email client would use UTF-8 or windows-1252 or iso-8859-15 or for our international customers some even more obscure (to us) ones.
As a native of language that falls into two different windows charesets, the iso and utf I support death penalty for anyone still not using utf8 for everything and everywhere.
It would marginally decrease the chance of your password being brute forced, which is likely the last way your password would ever get hacked, and most services have rate limiting to make this impossible or overwhelmingly unlikely anyway. So I’m gonna say no, not even slightly.
The correct spelling of my name has an accent letter., its been working pretty effectively for keeping people from finding me on social media.
My mom gave me this spelling cause it was “French” and fancy.
No I’m not French and have no evidence than anyone in my family has French ancestry.
Anywho. Yes. Accents are a great way to hide yourself on social media as well as add an extra layer to password security
I also have my social media location as another country.
Is your social media account’s location in France?
No but I should do that. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen the old iOS login screen that I thought you were registering for The Beatles dot com.
No. No human is trying trillions of combination to brute force an attack. A machine does it, the machine will try all symbols and lettera.
any brute force attack will use a dictonary based on know passwords and the usage frequency, if people are unlikely to use “accented letters” in their passwords it increase the time taken to bruteforce
Dunno why people are down voting you. Password lists have been around since forever, and anybody trying to brute force will start with one. Why cycle through “A”, “AA”, “AAA”, “AAAA”, etc first when you’re far more likely to score a hit faster with a list?
Text: use an accented letter
Image: shows a different, unique letter.
As a Spaniard I feel this is rage bait. Like calling Q an accented O.
Fyi. I keep all my user names and passwords in an address book. A physical one.
In my house. That is locked. In a drawer. Not sitting on the computer or near it.
Someone would literally have to break in physically, find the address book, and then flip through it to even realize what it was.
I also have codes for some user accounts. So instead of writing them out I give myself a hint as to which one I used. I generally use a variation of 3 ones. With different slight changes.
For my bank account access and the email account associated with it I only have hints. Not an actual user or email. So it can’t be bypassed with a password reset.
These are both unique though and neither are the same as each other nor anything similar to all the other user name variants I use for other accounts.
Well, you also won’t be able to log in from any computer with a US keyboard layout, so…
you could easily use ASCII code or copy the letter from Wikipedia/online
