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Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code

Posted by Zonk on from the judges-with-a-sense-of-humor dept.

xmedar writes "The BBC is reporting that the judge who presided over the recent Da Vinci Code plagiarism case used steganography to embed his own code in the judgment using italic text in random places throughout the text. The full text of the code reads 'smithcodeJaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqz' if you want to have a go at cracking it." From the article: "Although he would not be drawn on his code and its meaning, Mr Justice Smith said he would probably confirm it if someone cracked it, which was 'not a difficult thing to do'. In March, he presided over a High Court case brought by authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, who claimed Dan Brown plagiarized their own historical book for The Da Vinci Code."

3 of 463 comments (clear)

  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It means "First post"!

  2. Distributed Cracking! by Kalak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OK, so who wants to write a distributed cracking for this?

    Yes, I'm joking. My guess is that if you know enough to write a distributed cracking program, and it's a simple code, then it's probably something you can crack this code without one.

    Help finish the M4 project (enigma) with the new client at http://www.bytereef.org/

    Then go back to your favorite distributed code project when it's done - only one message left.

    --
    I am, and always will be, an idiot. Karma: Coma (mostly effected by .hack)
  3. ho8Lo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    abou7 who caN rant