> Oh, that's right, they'll get the government to step in. Only by suing you, civilly, in a civilian court of law. Unless the company is the United States Mili

> Oh, that's right, they'll get the government to step in. Only by suing you, civilly, in a civilian court of law. Unless the company is the United States Military, you can't really be thrown in jail for breaking the contract on its own. One would have to willfully spread the information learned while under the NDA, with the intent of that information causing damage, like a security hole in some bank's network a hired pen-tester finds that allows an attacker to illegally obtain money.