This also assumes that we can all agree on a definition for "innocent."
> what is there to protect?
Their privacy. Some people have strong opinions on 3 letter agencies and poor reading comprehension. Some people are just mean spirited. Best way to prevent dumb stuff from happening is to not create a situation where dumb stuff could happen.
I can't think of anything more public than airwaves.
Is the underlying assumption that everyone redacted in that report is a licensed HAM radio user deprived of their right to have a private name and address?
If you rented out a room (or even a hotel room) to Eric Weiss (mitnicks alias, one of many), do you really want everyone here to see your full name and address?
Or if someone hacked some database of users and used your name/surname to socially engineer someone else.
or worse!
maybe you were with your other family and this unwarranted disclosure revealed that to a scorned spouse and friend group that are always looking for holes in the story 40 years later
not criminal issues, not an FBI problem, and yet can alter your private life