Judge Creates Own Da Vinci Code 463
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."
It's not ROT13 (Score:5, Funny)
I checked double, triple and even quadruple ROT13, too! No luck!!
Smithy Code? (Score:5, Funny)
Offtopic: For those unsure about whether Dan Brown is a fool or a genius, I offer a quote from Digital Fortress: [wikipedia.org] You cannot make this stuff up
I cracked it! (Score:2, Funny)
I've solved it... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Coolest Judge Ever? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:too much time on their hands? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:4, Funny)
And even if they do, the resultant files will likely be in Aramaic or some obscure, ancient Mayan language.
Re:too much time on their hands? (Score:3, Funny)
I'd reckon it falls somewhere in the middle; that its mostly a management issue.
Re:Coolest Judge Ever? (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, didn't mean to end a sentence with a prepostition.
Then tell us which one he's making fun of, asshole.
Dan Brown, Artiste! (Score:5, Funny)
Where the hell am I?
The cobwebs in my head blow away, like candles in the wind. Oh, that's right, I am in my New England bedroom recovering from a trip to the world renowned city of Paris, where I attended a lecture given by world renowned Harvard religious symbologist Robert Langdon, who gave me an idea for a novel about religious symbology. On my bedside table I see Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum
Hello?
I pick up the phone. "Monsieur?", says the voice. "Sir, an important man is here to see you, s'il vous plait?" I wish Juanita would stop putting on a French accent. "A very important man," she pressed. That could only be my friend, Sir Leigh Teabing, the Royal Historian and Ambassador-Plenipotentiary to the Exchequer. He was awarded a knightency by Queen Elizabeth the II for his amazing volume on the House of Percy, in which he revealed for the first time the ninth earl's involvement in a Rosicrucian-Illuminati-Masonic conspiracy to do, er, something or other.
"Good evening, old fruit!," he exclaimed as he shimmered in, his monocle popping out. "I say, how the devil are you, old bean? Lawks-a-mercy, had a spot of bother getting up the apples and pears, don't you know! Good lord, is that settee kosher or wot? Must 'ave a knees-up round the old Joanna, eh!" (Did I not already tell you my research skills are second to none?: I based this dialogue on The Code of the Woosters, a useful compendium of contemporary slang). His manservant, Rémy Legaludec, stood by, menacingly. I don't trust him. Rémy, I mean, not Sir Teabing, who is as straight as a piece of string.
But who was the femme fatale (fatal woman) accompanying him? She looked familiar, like a beautiful Jacques Saunière, world renowned curator of the Louvre (the Louvre), the world renowned art museum in Paris. "Ah, 'alo, 'alo, monsieur (Mister), my name is Sophie Neveu," she said in flawless English, "I studied at the Royal Holloway." There is a sadness about her, as if she were about to find out her grandfather had been shot by a psychotic albino assassin working for Opus Dei -- hey, it happens -- but on the outside she smiles enigmatically, like Amon L'Isa.
Sophie took off her glasses, the ones that made her look like the renowned French government cryptographer she was. "My God," I said, "you're beautiful." "Thank you," she said, tossing her mane of thick burgundy hair playfully. Her playfulness disguised the haunting memory of witnessing her beloved grandfather participating in a bizarre sex ritual, but I wasn't to know that, though I thought I'd mention it now to keep the narrative tension at fever pitch. See, that's what good writing is all about.
Sir Teabing was also a sight for sore eyes. I wanted to pick his brains about an idea I'd had for a new bestselling book. "Sir Teabing," I said to the Royal British Knight of the Realm, "I'd like to pick your brains about an idea I've had for a new bestselling book."
"O, Jubilate!," Sir Teabing said. "Fire away!, as we used to say on the hunting-fields of Eton College, the world renowned school for the British upper-crust."
"From my researches at the Institute of Historical Review, and with the help of world renowned scholar David Irving, I've discovered the existence of a secret cabal -- known as 'Jews' -- which controls the destiny of the world through its factotum, an entity called 'Israel' that worship
I got it! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:too much time on their hands? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh yes, Michael Chricton is just the person I'd point to for realistic [everything2.com] portrayals of science in popular fiction.
Re:Coolest Judge Ever? (Score:5, Funny)
Woah. This is getting too rich for me. I fold...
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:5, Funny)
The First Wives Club [imdb.com]. At one point in the movie, one of the characters is in her husband's office. She opens up a document in Microsoft Word and saves it to a disk.
Obligatory: (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:5, Funny)
4 8 15 16 23 42 (Score:3, Funny)
It IS ROT13!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More Clues (Score:5, Funny)
The judge, who is 53 and lists some of his hobbies as reading military history and the sinking of the Titanic,...
I just can't respect a person who sinks cruise liners and kills thousands as a hobby.
That seems more like work to me:)
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:3, Funny)
That's just for believability. Who would buy a well-educated PhD-type woman who wasn't a world-class hottie?
Partial Decryption (Score:5, Funny)
ISALQRAPPXGSJZPQNIYKXRTBBJMH
As you can plainly see, the first three words are: "Is All Crap"
The Truth Of Judge Life (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, come on. When is the last time you saw a Microsoft Word document that was small enough to fit on a floppy?
Re: Smithy Code? (Score:5, Funny)
That's your standard Linux distro ought to include the mystical "tawgo" command. Anyone who can actually keep up with the command-line will get the joke, and it'll look just like ordinary movie computer fluff to everyone else...
It'd save them a fortune on getting media companies to hack up fake OS screens in Flash as well...
Re:It's not ROT13 (Score:3, Funny)
As for the AC: please be aware that the post you responded to was encrypted with two rounds of ROT-13 encryption, and by reading and responding to it, you have broken that encryption and thereby infringed upon my legal rights as granted by the DMCA. My lawyers will be in contact.
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:2, Funny)
that's not a secret code.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A Codesmith Exists (Score:5, Funny)
...which is clearly an anagram for "masons jar epic ogre at sea", referring to their role in overthrowing the British empire through a series of clever but obscure naval battles.
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:too much time on their hands? (Score:3, Funny)
-Loyal
Re:I've solved it... (Score:4, Funny)
Look Closer.... (Score:2, Funny)
Just thought you wanted to know (something useful)...
Re:I've solved it... (Score:1, Funny)
Call the NSA (Score:3, Funny)
What it is (Score:2, Funny)
I cracked it (Score:2, Funny)
"Drink more Ovaltine"
Crap. (Score:2, Funny)
Plus, I'm lazy and don't like to scroll.
Thank you.