>The case was eventually settled out of court, but the question remains whether it’s illegal to publish a specific number on the internet. The law currently seems to agree with Sony, that free speech doesn’t cover Hotz’s case. > One counterargument is that if a specific number is illegal to publish, then so is anything derived from that number. An excellent example of this is the Free Speech Flag

There's obviously a huge difference between publishing a number and publishing a number with a message next to it saying "this number is the password for X". Clearly the intent of the law is to stop the latter.