Don’t make the same mistake as this guy and set your password as an emoji 💁
Dec16
I’m a big fan of pushing emoji to their limits in weird places, but this guy learnt the hard way when he took it too far and used one as his password. Turns out, OS X doesn’t like it if you use an emoji password, as you’re banned from entering an emoji password on the login screen so the poor guy was locked out of his computer. Uh oh The user also had FileVault enabled, meaning he was unable to use one of the various simple techniques to break in. The only real solution is using the FileVault recovery key, but…
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