This is correct. Identity theft is a completely different thing. On what I think OP meant: watch the case with Julien Assange. The current understanding of the

This is correct. Identity theft is a completely different thing. On what I think OP meant: watch the case with Julien Assange. The current understanding of the law might change in the very near future, depending I guess on if they can determine conceptual legal differences between Wikileak's disclosure and Cryptome's disclosure of the same material. One is being treated mercilessly and the other isn't getting more than a glance from the same authorities, and is presenting as a witness in the Wikileak's case.