Hi Rev,
So you found us, uh? Welcome!
I’m a huge Daredevil fan and up to Waid’s run I had read all DD’s comics and quite a lot of extra stories and appearances. It’s not really relevant to your question, but it’s part of the answer.
Ben Urich’s original appearance was in Daredevil’s book and during one of the stories, he found out his secret identity: Matt Murdock. That’s the Matt I mentioned. That was waaaaaaaaay before DD was actually outed during Bendis’ run.
Ben decided not to print that story because he understood it would ruin Matt’s life and he had learned enough about Daredevil and Matt in his civilian to life to understand the guy was actually trying to help, already sacrificing too much of his life by doing that. So, basically, Ben gave up on the fame and glory that scoop would bring him to protect Matt.
Ben is, incidentally, one of my favourite Marvel characters even though he’s just a supporting character. So, yes, I’m worried.
Ben is very resourceful. I don’t think he would publish anything without actual sources (Krakoan defectors, for instance? People who did autopsies on mutants who died many years ago, etc…) and if he couldn’t find them, he simply wouldn’t publish. So if he does publish what he had already pieced together (based on what he told Scott in issue #1 and who knows what else?) just because Orchis gave him info he can’t verify…? Yeah. That would be character assassination.
If Duggan tries to equate keeping Matt’s secret to keeping a secret like Krakoa's - which is not a person but a foreign power? That will both be character assassination *and* it would get me really angry, because DD is a hero and Krakoa’s rulers are everything but.
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to answer you. Ben confronts DD and he confirms he is Matt Murdock in Daredevil (vol. 1) #164.