A judge with a sense of humor or You've been Da Vinci-ed

Justice Smith (the judge in the Dan Brown plagiarism case) disovered that nobody really reads all those court rulings all that carefully anyway. He embedded his own little "Smithy code" in the 71 page ruling and kept waiting for someone to notice. Its been 3 weeks and though the code has been finally discovered, it hasn't been broken yet.

[1] The original text of the ruling.

[2] According to CNET, the code (scattered all over the ruling) reads "smithcodeJaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqz."

[3] Judge Smith was kind enough to give out some clues to a reporter for the New York Times -

- the year 2006 is significant.
- Some of the methods used in the Dan Brown novel (especially the mathematical ones) may work.
- Read the Judge's own Who's Who entry which mentions his interest in Jackie Fisher (the British Admiral).