&gt;Sort of like making a fire is trivial<p>Yes, but demonstrating the practical difficulty in trying to regulate 102-byte sequences that can fit on a T-shirt (or in a tweet) has a utility of its own.<p>It&#x27;s what Prof. Dave Touretzky did in the case of DeCSS, which got shrunk down to 434 bytes when implemented in C:
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