It did come across as xenophobic, and as a remote developer I found it a bit insulting, although I understand where you come from. Yes, you have to weigh the r

It did come across as xenophobic, and as a remote developer I found it a bit insulting, although I understand where you come from. Yes, you have to weigh the risks and rewards, and if having your app source code disseminated would break you, then I'd want a high degree of control too. I have been given quite a lot of trust in my remote jobs and I haven't breached it, but I believe the companies involved would have been able to sue (so they weren't as helpless as an individual coder), and even if I had turned out to be morally corrupt, it wasn't something where stealing it would have given me much of a material advantage anyways (enterprise code is very much tailored to fit).