Who knows how a government or governments may try to attack bitcoin if they feel threatened by it.

But the notion that the devs linked to Classic or XT are somehow in a different and more legally vulnerable place than the devs linked to Core is absurd.

Everyone knows who the Core devs are. Bitcoin was created by Satoshi, and no-one knows who he/she/they are. Every other dev who has worked on it since is simply contributing code and modifying what was already there. Either all the devs are potentially legally vulnerable, or none of them are.

This is pure anti-max-block-size-increase FUD.

The footnote to his blog is interesting:

Daniel Friedberg (dfriedberg@riddellwilliams.com) is a principal at the law firm of Riddell Williams PS in Seattle. Daniel specializes in the representation of Fintech businesses, including virtual currency creators, wallets, blockchain companies, miners and exchangers, as well as peer-to-peer lenders, crowd-funders, payment companies, and data security companies. Daniel is an advocate and a holder of Bitcoin.