another way of looking at it?
Leaving the ethics of republishing data aside, any system that relies on security by obscurity can't really be said to be confidential.
The ARINC 800 series specifications includes encrypted datalink messages, if you don't want someone reading your data transmissions (in any system, not just aviation) then you encrypt it, otherwise you can't really expect folks not to look.
So since it is possible to prevent unauthorised access to the data, and the messages mentioned haven't been encrypted, then one can only assume the airlines don't think it is worthwhile to encrypt, but that is a whole different question to that of (re)publishing personal details.
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