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%%* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' ExpandedUniverse, there's a character named Rinnosuke who has the power to immediately identify the function of any device he sees. This does not mean that he knows what it's called or how to use it. He was once horrified to recover a "World Controlling Device" capable of causing great destruction, [[MetaphoricallyTrue little realizing]] that he was dealing with a UsefulNotes/GameBoy.
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%%* In the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' ExpandedUniverse, there's a character named Rinnosuke who has the power to immediately identify the function of any device he sees. This does not mean that he knows what it's called or how to use it. He was once horrified to recover a "World Controlling Device" capable of causing great destruction, [[MetaphoricallyTrue little realizing]] that he was dealing with a UsefulNotes/GameBoy.Platform/GameBoy.
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* Black Box programming is a very important concept in real life. For example, all UsefulNotes/{{API}}s (which allow developers to connect to things like Facebook or Google Maps) are black boxes; generally, the only details developers have are usage instructions and a description of what it does, since someone writing, say, a GPS application doesn't need to know anything about how Google Maps works.
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* Black Box programming is a very important concept in real life. For example, all UsefulNotes/{{API}}s MediaNotes/{{API}}s (which allow developers to connect to things like Facebook or Google Maps) are black boxes; generally, the only details developers have are usage instructions and a description of what it does, since someone writing, say, a GPS application doesn't need to know anything about how Google Maps works.
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* Due to the "digital rights" controversy, certain laws have been put into effect that ''require'' black boxes to remain black boxes, making it ''illegal'' even to try to crack into them. For example, it's now illegal to write programs to get past certain types of encoding on music, DVD's, and electronic books. If you have even a slight understanding of the way technology progresses, you'll probably see this move as either "stupid" or "scary", possibly both.
** If you've followed the results, "laughable," "doomed," and "legally unenforceable" are more likely.
*** Especially when the concept of an "illegal number" is thrown around. The people responsible for Blu-Ray's encryption were trying to get people to stop distributing a 128-bit number on the internet because it was the encryption key. Of course, because of the StreisandEffect, this number was posted ''everywhere'' on the internet within hours, with folks taking it as far as to design a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_09-F9_protest_art,_Free_Speech_Flag_by_John_Marcotte.svg flag for free speech]] with colors derived from translating the encryption key into hex color values[[note]]In LaymansTerms, hex color values work with three byte values, each corrosponding to RGB values. [=#FF0000=] would be red, #00FF00 would be green, #0000FF blue, #FFFFFF white (all three colors set to max), and #000000 for black (all three colors "off"), with a total of a little over 16 million possible colors if you don't count alpha channel (transparency). The first stripe of that flag uses #02F908, which are the first three numbers of the encryption key, and so on[[/note]].
** On the other hand, anyone with a basic understanding of motivation and incentive will know very few people would even want to produce such technology in the first place without some protections because it it would just get stolen otherwise.
** If you've followed the results, "laughable," "doomed," and "legally unenforceable" are more likely.
*** Especially when the concept of an "illegal number" is thrown around. The people responsible for Blu-Ray's encryption were trying to get people to stop distributing a 128-bit number on the internet because it was the encryption key. Of course, because of the StreisandEffect, this number was posted ''everywhere'' on the internet within hours, with folks taking it as far as to design a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sample_09-F9_protest_art,_Free_Speech_Flag_by_John_Marcotte.svg flag for free speech]] with colors derived from translating the encryption key into hex color values[[note]]In LaymansTerms, hex color values work with three byte values, each corrosponding to RGB values. [=#FF0000=] would be red, #00FF00 would be green, #0000FF blue, #FFFFFF white (all three colors set to max), and #000000 for black (all three colors "off"), with a total of a little over 16 million possible colors if you don't count alpha channel (transparency). The first stripe of that flag uses #02F908, which are the first three numbers of the encryption key, and so on[[/note]].
** On the other hand, anyone with a basic understanding of motivation and incentive will know very few people would even want to produce such technology in the first place without some protections because it it would just get stolen otherwise.
