I don't understand this sort of thing. It's only illegal to make the secret info public if you're authorized to access the data? That's like it being legal for me to sell my prescribed opioids to random kids even though my doctor can't legally do so.

One analogy might be:. If somebody works for the NSA, say, and accesses classified info and gives it to a journalist who writes about it, that person is breaking the law... but the journalist is not