Hold onto your hats, teens and Twitterati: today, a company announced that they have created the first ever emoji-based security system. Intelligent Environments, a British producer of “digital financial services software”, has created a four digit passcode system for online banking based solely on tiny pictures of faces, flames, et al.
Rather than using your phone’s emoji keyboard, the program lets you choose emoji onscreen. This could help bypass the fact that the code released to represent the images is then interpreted and designed by developers from different platforms; so Android emoji look slightly different to Apple’s or Whatsapp’s. This could make wider use of emoji passcode systems on websites, for example, harder to implement – if you were to use the same login system over different devices, you’d be confronted with drastically different praying emoji, for example, which could make logging in tricky.
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