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I am well aware of these, of course, and they have not been tested at the supreme court where they would fail.

You'll note that one of the numbers in question[1] is published, in full, on the wikipedia page that you link to.

[1] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

I think you are making a pretty big assumption that it would fail in the supreme court. It's not like the supreme court has abolished asset forfeiture either.

That one was everywhere at the time, it's still a trade secret, but utterly unenforceable. As you say, it's one number, Wikipedia is not publishing all of them for a reason.

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