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Ok. In that vain, here's a question; should you use any of these tools as an American citizen, beyond what you use them for, are you breaking any laws? That is, could you be guilty of something like sedition or something like it by using these thing illegally gotten?

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Not unless they have a security clearance or are in the military and have been ordered not to access them. For an ordinary citizen, it isn't illegal to have classified information as long as you weren't a party in their theft.

It's hairier for people with clearances. Technically you could have your clearance revoked for accessing classified information despite the fact that it's public. I don't know if that's ever happened, but it's a possibility.

For that idiom, it's "vein".

https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/in+that+vein.h...

Gah... thanks. You can speak the damn language for 36 years, and still screw it up all the time.

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