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Flippin' sweet!

Maybe IBM does have a sense of humor.

“Knock it off, Napoleon! Just make yourself a dang quesa-dilluh!”.
This phrase, from the movie Napoleon Dynamite, is the cipher key IBM are using to publish encrypted XML at this year’s Wimbledon grand slam. But is this a rather glaring lapse in security, or simply an anticipatory nod to curious hackers, many of whom surely rank amongst the fans of this quirky 2004 movie?

Phase Two [http://phasetwo.org/] tells the tale [link to http://phasetwo.org/post/wimbledon_2006_behind_the_scenes.html no longer works].