[TigeriusKirk]

My impression from previously looking into this case is that there probably was a violation of the law here, but that it would be absurd to prosecute it.

The mistake here would be to assume that officials always correctly avoid absurd prosecutions.

[Clubber]

What law specifically?

[Someone1234]

> there probably was a violation of the law here

He assessed a public web-page, found base64 encoded content, and decoded it. Please explain in exacting detail what you're claiming here both in terms of facts AND law.