IBM using Napoleon Dynamite Quote to Encrypt Data

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IBM using Napoleon Dynamite Quote to Encrypt Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 1, 2006 @02:44AM from the masters-of-the-bo-staff dept.

schmack writes "A developer discovers a quote from the movie Napoleon Dynamite is being used as the cipher key by IBM to publish encrypted XML at this year's Wimbledon grand slam. But is this a rather glaring lapse in security or an easter egg for curious hackers, many of whom would surely be fans of the quirky movie?"

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Let me be the first to say... by ChePibe · 2006-07-01 02:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Idiots!
Re:What is with that movie? by athakur999 · 2006-07-01 02:59 · Score: 5, Funny

It was totally retarded, why do people like it?

roman_mir, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes, all day. Besides, we both know I'm training to become a cage fighter.

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Re:What is with that movie? by Sage+Gaspar · 2006-07-01 03:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Whoever he wants to be. Gosh!
Thank you, Captain Obvious by JourneyExpertApe · 2006-07-01 04:00 · Score: 4, Funny

We're looking for a good English to English translator. Would you be available soon?

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Re:depends by Minwee · 2006-07-01 04:34 · Score: 4, Funny

Once the terrorists gain access to the scores from Wimbledon then it's all over for the free world. They could use our own tennis scores against us.
They had better be using the strongest encryption available for this kind of thing.
Randomly Generated? by feepness · 2006-07-01 05:31 · Score: 4, Funny

Is it not possible that this was a randomly generated key that simply happened to be a Napoleon Dynamite quote?
Re:Script substrings by Wolfrider · 2006-07-01 07:00 · Score: 4, Funny

--Those responsible for the cipher key in question, have been sacked.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

A m00se once bit my sister...

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