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Fastfission stated for the record:
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Whether it is posted elsewhere does not mean it does not have a safe legal status in the U.S. at all, as I understand it. There are some categories of information that even if derived from entirely open sources can still technically count as legally secret under U.S. laws (see our WP article on [[born secret]]), though legal enforcement has been rare and is constitutionally ambiguous, but are part of laws which are still on the books and which the government has never implied they would not try to enforce. Of course, without direct legal confrontation from a government source in question we should not be worried about this and certainly not be pre-emptively paranoid about it, but it is not a legally irrelevant issue.
FF
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.
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