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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/17/1639250/illegal-prime-number-unzips-to-decss http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/03/17/1639250/illegal-prime...
This is from WAAAY back in the day.
"A person named Phil Carmody has found a very interesting prime number. When converted to hexadecimal, the result is a gzip that contains a DeCSS implementation. I've posted a short bit of Java here that takes the prime as a command line parameter and dumps the result to standard out if you want to test it."
...I actually ran it once upon a time, although I didn't check if the links were current.
While slightly different context (prime #'s vs. PI) the concept is the same. If you dig deep enough into prime numbers and it contains the "illegal" topic du-jour expressed as a zip file... well, I won't put it past PI containing almost everything else as well.