[roywiggins]

People publish stuff they find in improperly redacted documents fairly frequently. Sometimes what happens is that the black bars covering the text in a PDF are just cosmetic, and the text is still there. Even if there's a state secret under there, it's not something people get prosecuted for (in the US). You generally have the right to publish state secrets that fall into your lap, even if they were obscured and might have required some technical spelunking inside a document.