»In which we encounter a Byzantine problem

Leslie Lamport, on the pluscal page, provides a 21-character string on which to search for the page. The string, which he requests others refer to as "the string obtained by removing the - from uid-lamportpluscalhomepage".
The use of a string like this to identify the page strikes me a strange, betraying a lack of trust in the algorithms that allow quick and efficient search of the internet, and especially strange considering that Lamport is an expert on algorithms and systems.
He presents the scenario of distributed decision-making in The Byzantine Generals Problem. The issue of fault tolerance in large, necessarily distributed, and often diverse systems presents fabulously difficult challenges.

Lamport's private search string turns out to be a googlewhack, which "existential manatee" is not.