This is the basis of my philosophy that information itself should not be illegal, and, with the assumption that one has free speech, the sharing of information should not be illegal.
interesting article. thanks for sharing it. a poster here got me thinking...what if I took those numbers and turned them into a pictogram or something....I guess that's still numbers though...
This is a bit philosophical, but it's information that may be illegal to share, not the way it's encoded. Symbols have potency because of what they represent. You would use a different number to represent the same information if you were using a different computer architecture to store it digitally. You can use any arbitrary number as an encryption key - its symbolic potency comes from the fact that it you are using it as your encryption key, not the number it happens to be.
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3 u/rsa 17 May 2016 21:19
This is the basis of my philosophy that information itself should not be illegal, and, with the assumption that one has free speech, the sharing of information should not be illegal.
No thoughtcrimes.
2 u/icamefromreddityo 18 May 2016 07:36
interesting article. thanks for sharing it. a poster here got me thinking...what if I took those numbers and turned them into a pictogram or something....I guess that's still numbers though...
1 u/dizzydog 17 May 2016 20:07
This is a bit philosophical, but it's information that may be illegal to share, not the way it's encoded. Symbols have potency because of what they represent. You would use a different number to represent the same information if you were using a different computer architecture to store it digitally. You can use any arbitrary number as an encryption key - its symbolic potency comes from the fact that it you are using it as your encryption key, not the number it happens to be.