The BBC is reporting that the judge who presided over the recent Da Vinci Code plagiarism case used steganography to [a href="vny!://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4949488.stm"]embed his own code in the judgment[/a] 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, Justice Smith 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.
