Sentence examples for defence secrets from inspiring English sources

In a plea deal he admitted passing national defence secrets to his Chinese girlfriend.

Only members of the Self-Defence Forces face tough sanctions, of five years in prison, for leaking defence secrets, or ten years for leaking information gleaned from Japan's security pact with America.

In a separate development a former US military contractor in Hawaii was sentenced to more than seven years in prison on Wednesday for passing on national defence secrets to a Chinese national and illegally keeping classified documents at his home, Reuters reported.

Experts estimate China has as many "cyber jedis" as the US has engineers, and some of them, with backing from the state, have been systematically hacking into and stealing from governments and companies in the west, taking defence secrets, compromising computer systems, and scanning energy and water plants for potential vulnerabilities.

Salman was convicted on charges of "communicating with the state of Qatar, disclosing and handing over defence secrets, and accepting money from a foreign country in return for providing military secrets and information related to the internal situation of the country".

Once a niche area, this is regarded by Downing Street as a "Tier One" national security priority because of the damage being done to the UK economy, and the danger of British defence secrets being stolen by stealth through sophisticated hacking attacks.

1986 The Cuckoo's Egg: A Soviet-backed hacker in Hanover, Germany, is caught breaking into computers at America's Lawrence Berkeley Labs to steal missile-defence secrets.1998-99 Moonlight Maze: America traces a series of computer break-ins at the Pentagon, NASA and elsewhere to a computer in Russia (which denies involvement).

His conviction prompted renewed calls, including from Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, for a public interest defence in secrets cases.

One solution is to offer a public interest defence for secret service whistleblowers.

"This much is clear from the fact that the government has sought to put its entire defence into secret sessions.

It has tried to slip additional pre-emptive clauses into the constitution that would give the armed forces an entirely unwarranted position of political power, protecting their economic privileges and keeping the defence budget secret.