Talk:Illegal number

Numbers

The examples of the illegal numbers? Jiawhein (talk) 08:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

I am guessing that certain numbers cannot be used in a certain way in some places from what I understand. Cwater1 (talk) 00:17, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

OP is asking for examples. And I agree with OP, the article is lacking a list of examples of numbers that are (internationally) illegal (and even the ones that are illegal in select countries are baked into large portions of text without clear formatting to be found at a glance when skimming). The closest is the "Other examples" section, where it only mentions ones made illegal in specific contexts (jerseys), where someone has been charged (no mention of the results), and what specific companies opted to do as internal policy to avoid censure (valve asking nintendo; chinese search engines).

And in the last case (valve/nintendo), it doesn't even list the actual number. 92.32.246.56 (talk) 05:28, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Illegal hashes

Probably worthy of inclusion, if picked up by reliable sources: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/11/illegal-hashes/ Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:26, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Remove paragraph about "Dolphin Emulator" in the "Flags and stenography" section

The section in "Flags and stenography" about the "Wii Common Key" free speech flag is based on an archived link to a reddit thread, rather than a notable secondary source. Some Google searching has only turned up the original Reddit thread and this Wikipedia page, so it's highly unlikely that another notable source references this. The remainder of the paragraph is redundant with the entry in "Other examples".

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[[Nintendo]] sent a legal [[cease and desist]] to [[Valve Corporation]] after the [[Dolphin (emulator)|Dolphin Emulator]] project announced it would release the software on the [[Steam (service)|Steam Store]]. The cited reason was due to Dolphin's distribution of the Wii AES-128 disc encryption "common key". Rather than asking users to provide the key on their own, like many other emulators. This lead users on Reddit's /r/emulation community to create a free speech flag for the Wii "Common Key"

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InfoManiac297 (talk) 02:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC) InfoManiac297 (talk) 02:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

References

Because the paragraph in question concerns a product manufactured by the Nintendo corporation, and owing to the similarity of that company with certain characteristics of my username, it's my practice to avoid editing articles covering that company or any of its products in order to avoid the appearance of being a company-related user account. Pinging Xan747 or any other review editor to handle this request. Regards,  Spintendo  03:04, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

 Partly done: I removed the text relying on the Reddit post. Since the Wii flag image ostensibly relies on the same source, I have also removed it. Rather totally remove the rest of the paragraph, and its citation, I am working on consolidating the information from the two RS into the Other examples section. Will notify you when complete. Xan747 (talk) 12:50, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

 Done: I deleted the paragraph in the Flags and steganography section, but added the citation to the Other examples section. I decided to leave the Other examples section mostly as is; however, the actual cryptographic key was embedded as a note, which is WP:SYNTH as it was not published in either of the supporting citations, and is a potential WP:COPYVIO to boot, so I removed it.

NOTE: An argument could be made that the entire example is SYNTH since neither source specifically identifies the encryption key as an illegal number. I'll leave that discussion to other editors.

Xan747 (talk) 13:37, 20 July 2023 (UTC)