Random #'s via CD-ROM?

[Mike McNally]

Data on CD-ROM will in general be decidedly non-random, unless the
CD-ROM was purposely generated as a collection of random bits.  ASCII
text files and executables have all sorts of structure.  Even music
CD's are pretty useless as random bit sources.

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