[WikiEN-l] Re: Classified information in Wikipedia

Fri Apr 1 18:20:08 UTC 2005

Blair P. Houghton said:
> There are politicized exceptions to this, but for the huge
> majority of classified items keeping the information secret will save
> lives, as will hindering its dissemination if it is somehow leaked.

This simply is not true of information that is routinely restricted in the
UK.  There is lots of quite harmless information that I can get
legimitately from US archives via FOIA, but may not legally publish in the
UK.