You may not have heard about Intelligent Environments before but truth is, this company is the mastermind behind some recent technical revolutions. The transactional mobile banking and online credit card solutions, the mobile wallet, the smart watch banking application, the transactional mobile banking... all these solutions being innovations in their time. Obviously, Intelligent Environments operates in the financial services industry and has been leading firms into the digital world for the past fifteen years. Now, they've invented a way to allow us to connect to our bank account using emojis.
Emojis have been popular from the very beginning of texting. They started as more or less simple keyboards characters combos and today a large range of elaborated pictograms is available. Those fun little pictures have become a way of 'speaking', a language, especially amongst young adults. And, according to Intelligent Environment, a far more secure alternative to our regular passcodes. The four-digit codes allow 7,290 keys of four non-repeating figures. On the same basis, Intelligent Environments' selection of 44 emojis allows 3,498,308 million combinations.
The company assures that pictures are easier to remember than numbers, because that's the way our brain has been working since the human creation. Online banking security being an essential concern, such a development is coherent. This fun way to log in is already integrated in an Android application and should be proposed by several banks in the coming year. That's a smiley in your face, hackers.
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