content: It should be treated as a criminal matter under anti-trust law, These policies were never about ensuring the security of information. There's documentation out there uncovered in the various lawsuits that companies used it to artificially suppress wages for various positions and artificially limit the talent pool (so they could justify the need for more indentured servants via H1B visas).  If you want to protect your companies trade secrets and development models, then you include that in your employment contracts (which they already do, along with dozens of NDA's) and damages are enforceable in civil courts when one of your employee's goes rogue and your competitors start copying your product/processes.