Yet another reason to keep technology and know how to U.S. citizens.

A Professor was found guilty of passing security sensitive information.

A federal judge sentenced a retired University of Tennessee professor to four years in prison Wednesday for passing sensitive information from a U.S. Air Force contract to two research assistants from China and Iran.

Plasma physics expert J. Reece Roth was found guilty in September on all 18 counts of conspiracy, fraud and violating the Arms Export Control Act.

The case marked the first time the government used the export control act to crack down on the distribution of restricted data, not hardware, to foreigners in a university setting.

See one of many posts, outsourcing national security on how this is a huge problem generally.

There are a series of youtube video reports on this issue.

The Good news is this is some action on that huge gaping national security hole called university research.