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[Star Wars] Can Vader or the Inquisitors still open and access Jedi Holocrons?

This thought occurred to me while I was talking about the plot of *Jedi: Fallen Order* in another thread and nobody answered my question there, so I brought it here. 

In *Rebels* we see that Maul is incapable of opening a Jedi Holocron, as he was raised by a Sith and has never known any world view other than that of the Sith - elevation of the Self, domination over others. Since the Light Side mindset is all about opening yourself up, treating other beings as equals and allowing yourself to be vulnerable to make a connection, Maul cannot open it.

He also tells us that to open a Sith Holocron one must either *be* a Sith themselves or *think* like one. Would it be a safe assumption that Jedi Holocrons have that same inverse requirement of being in touch with the Light Side of the Force? At one point, Ezra is capable of tapping into both mindsets and can open both Holocrons.

Vader and the Inquisitors are all former Jedi, so at one point they would have been able to tap into that mindset. But are they now too far gone in the Dark Side to do so? If Vader were to successfully retrieve Cordova's list of Force-Sensitive children, would he be capable of accessing and using that information?
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In old canon it's likely would've been next to impossible, since ye' olde holocrons had sentient gatekeeper AI in them patterned after the creator, who could at-will allow or deny people access to the knowledge.

In new canon however it seems that holocrons are more mundane storage devices, so probably former jedi would be able to access them, just like you've said, Ezra being able to open both jedi and sith holocrons.

EDIT - more mundane in a sense that it's still a storage cube that's somehow locked through the Force, RPGs usually say that they're based around kyber core. But once unlocked with the Force, they just spill the beans about everything they have. At least Jedi holocrons are not shown to have sentient AI guardians in them unless you count the RPG adventures, and FFG games are largely using the old canon details, so not a good source for confirmation of new canon questions. Sith holocron in Rebels seemed to have some sort of consciousness in it, but it's hard to say if it's unique in this regard or not.