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Posted By: Tubba, on host 138.38.32.88
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001, at 06:12:52

For those of you who collect prime numbers, here's one for you:

...

No, I'd better not. RinkWorks might be shut down because of it.

"DeCSS" is a DVD encryption cracking program. It is, therefore, illegal. Someone has taken the source bits, though, and appended a few numbers to it. The result is prime. So this number _is_ illegal. It contains an illegal program. On the other hand, it is prime. It deserves to go on record. But then, it's illegal, so it can't. But...

If I took the raw data and made a number out of it, you'd call that illegal. Why should this one be any different just because it's prime?

Tubba

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