[NTLUG:Discuss] Perl program to get prime number, gunzip it to source code

[Christopher Browne]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:41:07 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>  said:
> Basically it extracts a the prime number off of a web site and
> runs it through gunzip... thus producing the DeCSS program.

It seems to work, bizarrely enough; how on _earth_ did they come up with
this one?
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