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by Karunamon 4499 days ago
A US citizen is under no legal obligation to do or not do anything with "classified" information. That is a standard that only its employees must observe.

I can go to Wikileaks and read Snowden and Assange-backed papers all day long. Govt. employees on the other hand aren't allowed to read that info even though it's already public (even at home, even on their own time).

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Interesting. Thanks for clarifying. I wonder if those files can have other restrictions tied to them, such as being transported or copied between two computers.