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Fastfission stated for the record:
<snip a bunch>
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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