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This guy was conducting DoD funded research, and then replicating that work secretly in a lab in China. Literally espionage.

• gumby 7y ago
  > This guy was conducting DoD funded research, and then replicating that work secretly in a lab in China. Literally espionage. I did not see the FBI alleging this publicly. It is not in their affidavit. He did lie on his forms to the DoD and that is legitimately a (non-espionage) crime. DoD funding does not in itself make something a national secret. I did plenty of work funded by DARPA in my youth (during the cold war!) all of which could be publicly talked about and no classification or really any constraints were involved. I did later do cryptographic work but that was controlled by the Department of Commerce and was certainly more constrained than anything I worked on paid for by DoD. I don't know Harvard's policy but at MIT since problems in the 60s, all classified work is supposed to be segregated into separate MIT-affiliated operations like Lincoln Labs, MITRE, Draper etc. It looked like distribution his work was controlled at most by the publishing cartel of Elsevier et al.