Just confirmed that the NYT has not encrypted Wordle at all. Looked at source code and then clicked on the main javascript file, all the words are there in a string. What the...
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hell? They can't keep them in a secure database? This is like Web Development 101. I'm a Wordle fan and I'm sick of having Wordle spoiled by assholes, but it's never going to stop if they don't clean this up.
posted February 12th, 2022 at 5:41pm in
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- who spoils it on the Internet except ybm troll 2-12-2022 5:42pm
- Some guy did on Twitter too. There's a story in the NY Post today about it. 2-12-2022 5:43pm
- ^^ don't read past the first part, it's full of spoilers, it's like the Post is trolling the NYT. 2-12-2022 5:44pm
- people have posted on twitter 2-12-2022 5:43pm
- and so it begins 2-12-2022 5:42pm +1 like
- It’s wordle, not your ssn. Anyway, we all knew NYT would fuck it up anyway. 2-12-2022 5:43pm
- They didn't fuck it up, they just didn't plug the glaring security hole that always existed, which you'd think they could do. 2-12-2022 5:44pm
- Why not just play it before you get online? 2-12-2022 5:44pm
- Tomorrow's word is ROBIN 2-12-2022 5:45pm -1 dislike
- Because the troll spoils TOMORROW'S Wordle. And days ahead of that too. They have like the next 200 words that are cued up in order. 2-12-2022 5:45pm
- Over 1000 are queued 2-12-2022 5:46pm
- Hopefully they fix that today 2-12-2022 5:47pm +1 like
- Trolls here spoil it days ahead 2-12-2022 5:46pm
- lol 2-12-2022 5:47pm +1 like
- OMG 2-12-2022 5:52pm
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