On 4/10/06, Sean Barrett sean@epoptic.org wrote:
Everything you say is true in a legal sense. In a practical sense, the chances that information that is widely available across the Web is [[born secret]] is so vanishingly small, and the chances that anyone will actually face any sort of repercussions from republishing that information are so infinitesimal that my thumbrule (classified is not verifiable, and verifiable is not classified) is only epsilon short of axiomatic truth.
The question isn't whether the information would fall under the born secret clause (in fact, huge categories of information are under it automatically), but whether it would be prosecuted. And in this I agree completely that it is absurdly unlikely, and something not to worry about unless it comes up in a direct legal confrontation.
FF