If you're the only person that knows a particular sequence of letters or numbers you own it. If you remove all knowledge of that information you destroy it. An

If you're the only person that knows a particular sequence of letters or numbers you own it. If you remove all knowledge of that information you destroy it. And by "all knowledge" I mean every known way to generate it, not just a simple representation. There is nothing special among any single number in 160 byte string, but it contains all SMS ever sent. Some of those messages are of special interest to some people.