Deletion of Illegal number

Comment: with major cleanup. Topic itself is notable, thuogh the refs cited are weak on  grounds (need some news or scholarly refs, not just blogs). Some of the refs in illegal prime and/or AACS encryption key controversy probably discuss the general issue, and so would be good sources for the page at hand. I agree with WLD, illegal prime is just a special case, and could be merged into here. Or else the whole Illegal number Illegal prime AACS encryption key controversy trilogy could be refactored to put the common info in illegal number
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)

Comment: It's mostly  and definitely a misleading title.  The number itself is not illegal, but exposing certain types of information is.  To use an example, Lewis Libby|Scooter Libby was not convicted because Valerie Plame|Valerie Plame's name was illegal, but because he exposed information connecting her to the CIA.  In the same way, the number isn't itself illegal (after all, it would be useless without knowledge of its purpose), but the exposed key to DRM software or some other secret information.  Besides, in this day and age any piece of information can become a number, potentially making this article too vague to be useful.  What good information is here should really be merged with more appropriate articles, such as Classified information, Trade secret, or AACS encryption key controversy.  It might be worth considering merging Illegal number and Illegal prime into a new article, i.e. Illegal information
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)

Comment: WP:NOR|Original research.  The AACS encryption key controversy is an interesting topic, for sure.  Illegal prime may seem related to it, but legally, it's not so clear they are really part of the same issue.  This is a tricky one to call, but when I thought about why it was so tricky, it became clear this was actuallly OR.  When somebody reads about Carmody's illegal prime and then reads about the encryption key business, it may be easy to start theorizing about illegal numbers, e.g. "wow, everything is a number...we can't copyright anything unless we copyright numbers!"  But this kind of theorizing, while pleasant to do, is just OR, unless it is published in |reliable sources.  And any such speculation that connects "illegal" primes (which AFAIK no legal experts actually think are illegal) with a particular (allegedly) illegal number by creating terminology to connect them together, is just that – speculation, unless properly sourced
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)