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[โ€“] [email protected] 179 points 10 months ago (35 children)

Emojis are known to break systems in certain circumstances due to the way they're interpreted in certain character sets.

I guarantee people doing this will not only lock out their own accounts, but may even freeze some authentication servers.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/want-to-brick-an-iphone-send-some-emojis

https://www.itechpost.com/articles/75762/20170119/brick-iphone-using-emojis-plus-tricks-dont-know.htm

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

and there are many trash implementations that dont recognise something like :emoticon: as shortcut and turn it into emoji, no no you have to use emoji keyboard to type them

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