Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill

" Military choppers fly over Denver during top secret drill David Edwards Raw Story Tuesday, June 17, 2008 A half-dozen military helicopters flew low over parts of Denver Monday night as part of a security drill...

Two Top Wikipedians Resign

Chalk it up to growing pains within Web 2.0: when companies invent new ways of doing business they inevitably reach a point where they are making it up as they go along. In this case, two top board members are leaving Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia's  business entity)...

Kill the Kyl Amendment!

"Kill the Kyl Amendment! Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) appears to be determined to criminalize the leaking -- and publishing -- of classified information. The Senate could vote as early as this week on what amounts to a backdoor approach to an official secrets act. Here's some brief...

Microsoft Sued Over 'Embarrassment'

The plaintiff would have been better served by not storing such, uh, sensitive material on his hard drive. He has no case, really; I'm surprised that the other companies mentioned in the article settled out of court in the first place."A New England man has sued Microsoft...

Amendment chills press coverage of government activities

"The Senate Judiciary Committee meets today to potentially tack the so-called “Kyl Amendment” onto Section 798 of the Espionage Act, which has been deemed a potential Offical Secrets Act by First Amendment and open government advocates. Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has floated...

Engineer indicted in alleged plot to sell military trade secrets

"A Chinese engineer was charged Thursday with stealing trade secrets from a Silicon Valley company that made military training software and attempting to sell them to Asian governments. Xiaodong Sheldon Meng, 42, a Chinese national with Canadian citizenship, was indicted on...