wartime

With a big project like that during wartime it would probably be fairly easy to cover up.

If it was wartime and there was any threat to the navy, all the work would be done by navy technicians.

Turing's Cathedral covers von Neumann's wartime work, the IAS machine and the purpose for which it was built, and many other aspects of his life.

You going to build thousand islands on sand during wartime?

I sometimes find ex-military folks analogies between their wartime service and situations in civilian life rather forced, but this analysis is exactly right.

Treason requires actions directly aiding a wartime enemy.

I don't believe you can honestly compare hiding one's own communications for the sake of privacy with carrying a wartime weapon in a non-hostile public place.

Just a few years after that, as the effect of those wages propagated throughout the economy, we hit our highest non wartime rate of inflation of the 20th century.

In the history of Espionage Act cases - the Espionage Act being a wartime temporary restriction of normal constitutional proceedings that survived past its wartime statute - excludes the possibility of arguing a whistleblower case, which is what Snowden would want in this case to argue.

>carrying a wartime weapon in a non-hostile public place.

It is legal in the United States to message Americans under wartime powers, states of emergency (Occupy and Ferguson were both considered states of emergency), and for the purposes of getting domestic support for overseas military operations.

Perhaps some people can draw the distinction between a sneak attack on a civilian target by a group of fanatics, and a technology developed during wartime to be used against a declared enemy, with the intent ending such conflict so their friends and family could return home.

The government can create a "high-fecundity during wartime" category of marriage if it wants, and grant extra tax benefits.

So they agree not to do battle "in cyberspace", whatever these bigwigs think that is, but does this mean communication systems will be off-limits for attacks in wartime?

Of course a wartime anything is inappropriate in a "non-hostile" place.

I think it's more that if they're not in "wartime" mode, and employ a bunch of brilliant people who are well resourced and not working flat-out, they have a good chance of coming up with big things accidentally.