Could hackers change the daily Wordle? Researchers are torn

Researchers are split on whether someone could hack into the New York Times’ massively popular game Wordle and change the daily word users are forced to figure out.

In a blog post last month, Noname Security’s David Thomason said the the entire list of daily Wordles for the next few months could be discovered by reverse engineering the javascript code of the website using Google Chrome and the built-in developer tools – something other security researchers discovered even before the …

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