According to its religious creed, the Bible can be just a good-oriented, moral book and a little corner of the post-tomb world. But there are those who can give a different utility to the holy book of Christianity. For example, to find out your passwords - even the particularly inspired ones.

This is the case with security researchers Kevin Young and John Dustin. As an article on the Ars Technica website revealed, the pair used not only the Bible, but also much of Project Gutenberg's book repository - works whose copyright expired - to create a huge database of words and phrases, in order to help with password cracking.

15, 000 books and 344, 000 passwords

After using Stratfor's leaked passwords, the pair began searching for terms from other sources. Image Source: Reproduction / Ars Technica

The result, consisting of a total of approximately 15, 000 works - to which Wikipedia was added - was then applied to the 344, 000 passwords leaked in the famous case of intelligence company Stratfor, resulting in considerable success. As explained by the site:

“Almost immediately, a torrent of passwords considered 'smart' revealed themselves. These included: 'Am i ever gonna see your face again?' (36 characters), 'in the beginning was the word' (29 characters), 'from genesis to revelations' (26 characters), ' I cant remember anything '(24 characters), ' thereisnofatebutwhatwemake '(26 characters), ' givemelibertyorgivemedeath '(26 characters) and' eastofthesunwestofthemoon '(25 characters). ”

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Throughout the article, Young and Dustin explain how they still used YouTube, Twitter, and various other data sources to add extra levels of complexity to their password cracking techniques. Anyway, it is better to be careful with your passwords - especially if you are a lab rat or have been particularly successful in Bible studies.

Via Tecmundo.