Whether or not that's a good idea, it hardly qualifies as "Orwellian".

agreed... but

Software Secure Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., developed the device with $1.1-million in seed money from Troy [University]. In return, the university gets the first 10,000 Securexams that the company produces. If it sells more than that, the university receives a share of the proceeds.

I bet the students are pretty psyched to see their tuition going towards spy camera development... with the students being the presumed targets of the cameras.

I think you are referring to the German surrender and not the Japanese. When both the American and Russian armies were converging on Berlin, the German soldiers were running to the American side to surrender so that they would not have to surrender to the Russians. The Russians hated Germany because Hitler worked out a deal with the Russian leaders that said neither side would attack the other and then Hitler opened up the eastern front and attacked Russia anyways. After the war many German soldiers who surrendered to the Russians were sent to forced labor camps.