If it wasn't obvious (for instance, because you've never implemented RSA before): all information can be represented as a number (and I suppose, theoretically, as primes).
Anyway... what's wrong with the "they're all just plants" argument with regards (I'm assuming) to the completely absurd "War on Drugs"? How is that goofy? I don't think it's goofy at all. I think it's a fairly common-sense, level-headed reaction to the absolutely ridiculous idea that people need be protected from putting whatever they want into their own bodies.
As long as their subsequent actions do not impose significant costs upon everyone else. Some of those people will continue to be productive citizens. Others will not. And that's fine too, as long as they don't expect everyone else to feed and care for them.
Now I could raise the issue of crime. Everyone else should not have to deal with crime caused by people trying to get their next fix. But that problem (mostly) goes away by not making the substances illegal in the first place. The crime problem only continues to exist if some people become unemployable but have to commit crime in order to get their next fix.
But I didn't see any argument put forth in this article that equates to the "they're all just plants" argument...
Care to point it out?
There are plenty of reasons to be anti-DRM or pro-user privacy, but the "it uses numbers" argument is not a particularly good one.
I'm just not sure who the criticism was directed towards.
Illegal primes, however, seem to relate more to DMCA anti-circumvention measures and the restraint on free speech imposed by law. The DMCA makes it illegal not only to actually circumvent copy protection, but to
offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any
technology, product, service, device, component, or part
thereof, that—
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of
circumventing a technological measure that effectively
controls access to a work protected under this title;
(If you're looking for more nits: this is also a misuse of the word "illegal", and further [and separately] it's not the numbers that are unlawful.)