alt Hacker NewsRegulations on forbidden numbers exist, but they are usually not a sensible policy and are not comparable to the regulation of rocket launchers.
Regulations on forbidden numbers exist, but they are usually not a sensible policy and are not comparable to the regulation of rocket launchers.
Thinking of files as “forbidden numbers” is too abstract a perspective to be useful. What’s in the file and how it will be interpreted matters.
A file might contain malware, child porn, or RNA sequences for viruses.