No, read what I said. It's nuanced. The particular law is now archaic and irrelevant due to it's having fallen out of use and never having been used. In the same way that monitering aircraft movements can be seen as spying. In the world of planefinder, liveatc and the internet, there is no reasonable chance of a peacetime prosecution taking place.
Rules is rules is best left to parking attendants. What circumstances would ever realistically warrant a prosecution? Worth remembering that although you have signed the Offical Secrets Act I bet there's one or two of your enjoyable anecdotes that you technically ought not to have shared on pprune?