LONDON (Web Desk) – A British company has launched an emoji alternative to the traditional four-digit Pin code commonly used for accessing online banking.
Intelligent Environments says its Emoji Passcode service is more secure because there are more potential combinations of the 44 emojis than there are of the numbers 0-9.
It claims some digital banks have already expressed interest in the idea. Memory experts agree that people find it easier to remember images.
David Webber, managing director of Intelligent Environments, said the system was designed to appeal to 15-25-year-olds, BBC cited.
The use of patterns and images was already used by some firms as a useful alternative to remembering complex sequences of numbers and letters.
There are also hackers who will work on breaking into these systems, so there should be some sort of two-factor authentication.
