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Cheating Part 2  5 posts left…  So my Wife decided that she
loves to play that game “Words with Friends” on the iPhone. It’s
basically just like Scrabble but probably for legal reasons it’s
just slightly different (bonus placement, tile value, etc… are
different). Unfortunately for me, my Wife is scary smart and
knows the English language far better than I. So I’m at a huge
disadvantage when playing games that involve words or spelling.
The only thing I’m good at is the math part, figuring out what
the highest scoring word is… oh, yeah, and cheating. Well after
a few dozen games, I kinda got fed up with the whole thing and
started looking for ways to cheat. Sure, it’s probably talking
an unencrypted protocol and it’s probably doing most of it’s
validation checks on the client side, but my Wife is going to
notice if I start using words that aren’t words.  So I start
thinking about writing a tool that brute forces through the
dictionary and attemp