The Language of Emojis
I decided to attempt to translate a paper from last semester into emojis to see how easy it would be. I chose to look at the first three paragraphs of my final paper for IT350: Security Engineering. My paper discusses the important of security within your home network, and how to set up your router or access point to be the safest and secure that it can be.
Advancing 💻🎥📷 are allowing network 🔒 to reach all-⏳ highs. 👥👈 are able to restrict and monitor 🚦, control who has 🚪, and ensure that network stays 🛀 and healthy. This is great 📰 for network administrators, but in current environment however, 🌊 have changed. Employers have become much more adaptive and flexible than ever ↩️. Many employees choose to work from 🏡 full-⏳ or a few days a week in order to get away from 💓 in cubicle. With this being 💼, companies have to allow their employees 🚪 to network and the 📇 that are nested within. VPN, or virtual private network, would create a 🔒 and encrypted tunnel that could allow user to connect without 👀 a real difference at 🏡. Although policy within that network stays same, actual outgoing connection could create a problem depending 🔛 user’s 🏡 network. Most consumer technologies that are available and affordable for families to use don’t have much upside. These routers that are commonly provided by Linksys, Netgear, and D-🔗, amongst others, have default 🔒 settings that leave user vulnerable.
Configuration can often be an issue for typical 🏡 user, as many don’t have the necessary skill to set 📈 the equipment. Companies that create interfaces for these devices have a 👎 history of making them hard to navigate and inconsistent. For example, almost every major firmware update for Linksys routers create a completely different interface. This can be very difficult for user to understand, as most 👥 don’t have the background or ⏳ necessary to be proficient in 🎓 the software. This being said, users need to 🎓 how to 🎮 this interface in order to keep both their 👪 and their business safe from outsiders. Almost every interface has differences at the surface, but deep 📉 👉👥 are similar. The appearance and interface design is the most ⚠️ piece for the user, but it should contain the same options and ℹ️. Each should allow 👉👤 to alter different 🔒 settings and allow 👉👤 to make your network as strong as the software allows.
When 👉👤 first buy or 📞 your device, it should come with a preset username and password. In past, these default fields were very consistent across devices, typically containing “user”, “admin”, or “administrator” for usernames and “password”, “password123”, and “12345” as passwords. For most models of these routers, there is documentation available online that infiltrators can sift through in order to 🚪 your network. Recently, companies have gotten better with setting different passwords 🔛 each device, but 👉👥 are still very 🐑 to crack. Xfinity routers have started to use style of a noun, ️⓸ numbers, and another noun. These combinations could include 📷2140🐫, 🏈3749📪, and 🎸2432🎢. Although this is a much better method, there are still online resources containing specific combinations that are used, and 👥👈 = still able to create programs to 🏃 through each possibility in a 💫 manner. It all comes 📉 to changing password and creating a 🏋️♀️, unique 🔑 to get 🔛 your network. Some 👥 claim that hexadecimal passwords are the best way to keep infiltrators out. I believe that as long as the password is at least ⓼ characters long and contains letters, numbers, and 🔣, it is strong enough. 🔂 quantum 💻 really emerges, 👥👈 will have to then reconsider our methods of 🔒.
In the end, I felt as though it wasn’t too hard to do. I initially ran these through an online translating tool, which gave me a solid start, but a lot of what they provided seemed like it didn’t fit, or forced, to me. There were some parts of the paper that I couldn’t really translate, but overall it was fairly simple and straight forward to do. This may become a language that more people start to take seriously, as shared meaning is better established with emojis than with most programming languages. This could be the way that we communicate years and years from now!
