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 "Smithy code" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Coolest Judge Ever? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The courts are overloaded enough... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:The courts are overloaded enough... (Score:1, Informative)
This was a UK judge, retard.
Re:The courts are overloaded enough... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The courts are overloaded enough... (Score:2, Informative)
The BBC is reporting...
...Mr Justice Smith...
...a High Court case ...
In other words, this case is from Britain!
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:3, Informative)
Jurassic Park makes up for it with stupid biology. They think they can contain the dinosaurs contained on the island by making them "lysine dependent". People are fucking lysine dependent. It's an essential amino acid [wikipedia.org]. To the author's credit, it turns out not to work. But I can't imagine an organization capable of bringing back dinosaurs from DNA that can't collectively remember 9th grade biology.
Re:It's not ROT13 (Score:0, Informative)
now somebody please mod me "informative"....
I knocked something together... (Score:5, Informative)
As far as I can see the letter list is:
smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzviMi
Re:I knocked something together... (Score:5, Informative)
smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzv
And these are the paragraph numbers and words I found them in, for those who wish to look at the original ruling and confirm:
1 Claimant(s)
2 clai(m)ant
3 (i)s (t)hat
4 (c)ynicism
5 f(o)r
6 prece(d)ed
7 T(e)mplar
8 New (J)ersey
9 res(e)arch
11 th(i)s
13 e(x)tinguished
14 (t)echnical
16 st(o)ry
18 (t)he
19 somethin(g)
20 grou(p)s
21 u(s)ed
23 w(a)s
25 do(c)uments
26 elsewh(e)re
27 Templ(a)rs
29 Clai(m)ants
30 (w)ith
31 o(f)
34 (k)ey
35 Plant(a)rd
37 intro(d)uced
38 manuscri(p)ts
40 ulti(m)ately
42 (q)uestions
43 embla(z)oned
This could be just a substitution cipher, in which Mr. Justice Smith has contrived to make the first ten characters "smithycode." The lack of spaces between words, though, makes it tough for me to decipher -- though I'm sure there are people out there better at deciphering than I.
several letters missing (Score:1, Informative)
Just realized there are several mistakes in the version posted.
Actual: smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamqwfkadpmqzv
Posted: smith codeJaeiextost psacgreamqwfkadpmqz
The y has already been pointed out.
Missing g
19. All of the films therefore centred on Rennes-le-Chateau. However HBHG was a follow up as he says when he closed the last film with "something extraordinary is waiting to be found.... and in the not too distant future, it will be" . HBHG is said to be what the somethin g is and how extraordinary discovering of it had been.
Missing v
43. ...
before (possibly through contacts with the wife of Septimius Severus who was from
Syria). This religion it is said harmonised with the cult of Mithras which was
pre v alent in Rome (especially in military circles) at that time. Thus for example the
Christian religious day of Sunday was taken from the cult of Mithras and both
celebrated a major birth on December 25th. Mithraism also stressed the immortality of the soul and a future judgment in the resurrection of the dead (there is not
necessarily anything original in that as a faith).
Re:Smithy Code? (Score:4, Informative)
You forgot the link to the parody [ubersite.com].
Re: Smithy Code? (Score:3, Informative)
Hey, that shouldn't be hard to whip up, using whiptail [tifr.res.in] or zenity [freshmeat.net] or something!
Actually... (Score:2, Informative)
1:s, 2:m, 3:ithy, 4:c, 5:o, 6:d, 7:e, 8:Ja, 9:e, 11:ie, 13:x, 14:t, 16:os, 18:t, 19:g, 20:p, 21:s, 23:a, 25:cgr, 26:e, 27:a, 29:m, 30:w, 31:f, 34:k, 35:a, 37:d, 38:p, 40:m, 42:q, 43:z and I didn't bother reading to the end.
which makes smithycodeJaeiextostgpsacgreamwfkadpmqz
Maybe "smithycode" is just an identifier and J is some kind of key; that leaves the letters "a" and "z" with 26 letters in between...
Re:I knocked something together... (Score:3, Informative)
A) it appears to be a substitution cypher, unless the judge used qed or one of the words that does not have a u after the q.
or
B) it could be simply that the words themselves can be rearranged to form the judges thoughts on the case - The required words all appear to be there for this.
a - 4
b - 0
c - 1(2)
d - 1(2)
e - 3(4)
f - 1
g - 2
h - 0(1)
i - 1(2)
j - 1
k - 1
l - 0
m - 2(3)
n - 0
o - 1(2)
p - 2
q - 1
r - 1
s - 2(3)
t - 2(3)
u - 0
v - 1
w - 1
x - 1
y - 0(1)
z - 1
Any other thoughts?
Judges like to have fun to (Score:3, Informative)
And dont forget our favrote Federal Judge, Samuel Kent in Texas who in BRADSHAW v. UNITY MARINE http://www.nationalreview.com/document/document07
Judge Kent wrote in Smith v. Colonial Pen, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/skent1.html [thesmokinggun.com], "...Alas, this Courts kingdom for a for a commercial airport! The Court is unpersuaded by this argument because it is not the Court's concern how the Plaintiff gets here, whether it be by plane, train, automobile, horseback, foot, or on the back of a huge Texas jackrabbit, as long as the Plaintiff is here at the proper date and time" Earlier in the order he talks about the three week long covered wagon trip from Huston to Galveston being free of bandits.
Judge Kent also wrote a great one in Republic of Boliva v. Philip Morris http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/obiwan4.html [thesmokinggun.com]
Re:Dan Brown, Artiste! (Score:4, Informative)