Bible Verses Are Easy to Guess, so Don’t Use Them As a Password
As we have established many times, your cunning tricks do not protect your password . If you or someone you know uses Bible links as a password, this trick is also pretty easy to crack.
Base a password on a Bible verse — for example, using john316 or psalm23 — is a popular way to create a memorable password. An analysis of the 2009 Rockyou hack, which identified 32 million usernames and passwords, found that various Bible verses make up a large number of passwords. As the news site Boing Boing notes, they can be easy to remember, but they are also quite easy to hack. Even if you don’t use a popular verse as your password, using the Bible as a template still gives hackers a chance to guess what you are doing:
An article in Christianity Today does not recommend using your “life verse” as a password, but does not warn that other ways of converting verses into passwords – for example, using the first letter of every word in a verse – are also rather weak, since they Computers can easily compile a database all easy-to-remember passwords that can be constructed in this way.
If you study the Bible regularly, using verses or creating a password based on a passage will be tempting because you already memorize the text. However, remember that hackers can always figure out which templates you are using, and they have a lot more collective time to devote to it. Instead, use a password manager and passwords that hackers cannot guess .
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