I'll bet you didn't know that numbers could be illegal. Take 92214563780560366130661709445338835634 for
instance. Looks pretty innocent, doesn't it?
That's the decimal version of an AACS processing key, and
it's illegal to publish that particular key in many countries (the US
of A and possibly even Finland, for instance) since it enables you to
decrypt any HD-DVD / Blu-ray disks you legally bought.
What if /dev/random (the standard random number generator on many UNIX-like operating systems) happened to spit that number out one day? Would you be guilty of a crime? What if some mathematical equation happened to yield that number as a solution? Let's say that for whatever reason you have the calculation 0xD116C89E071A6D82860B519264D65FBE1A2 / 0x3039 on a web page.
What is I just blatantly paste a number like 0x09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 on the page? Does that make me a felon?
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