Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code

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."

Comments

Re:Coolest Judge Ever?

[Anonymous Coward]

They're in the summary, you fucking retard.

Re:Coolest Judge Ever?

[Anonymous Coward]

judges are cooler than gay fucking programmers/hackers.

The courts are overloaded enough...

[multiOSfreak]

The US court system is already busting at the seams. Why waste time "creating" a silly code in a *judgement* document? That's the kind of thing you should do at home, not while sitting on the bench. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great there's a judge cool enough to grok cryptography, but goofing around with official court rulings is not cool. In fact, that's the kind of thing that might prompt a losing party to file an appeal, further engorging the court system with frivolity.