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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by eru on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:09AM (#24976854)
It's fun to think about, but any digital file is just a big long number. And prime numbers are surprisingly common.

So finding a variant of one offending digital file that's also a prime is a rather straightforward process.

What fascinates me more is all the illegal bits people put into the bitcoin block chain; and how bitcoin people deal with that.

Especially since you can make random looking strings illegal after the fact:

I have an illegal file A. I produce a random binary file R of the same size as A. I publish (R xor A) and R in two different venues, both mathematically-perfectly random files on their own. But together, they produce illegal file A.

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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by t0mas88 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:06AM (#24977177)
How do the bitcoin people deal with it? I thought they just accepted it as a fact of life?
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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by eru on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:16AM (#24977543)
Not sure. See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-21/bitcoins-blockchain-h... for an article.
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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by IshKebab on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:35AM (#24979039)
That seems quite naive. I don't think "I just accepted child porn had to be on my computer as a fact of life." would go down well in court.
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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by t0mas88 on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @12:27PM (#24991074)
It looks like they didn't solve it and just left it there. So I'm afraid a lot of bitcoin users are that naive.
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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by DarkWiiPlayer on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:23AM (#24977260)
The blockchain has been illegal for years, hasn't it?
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