Yes, it’s stealing afterall. Taking screenshots using one’s phone is still possible to steal the code, although the effort would be tedious for a large codebase

Yes, it’s stealing afterall. Taking screenshots using one’s phone is still possible to steal the code, although the effort would be tedious for a large codebase. But for an active adversary, if that’s the only method, he/she would do it. I fear there is no way around that, even with logging enabled (there will be thousands of accessing the codebase per day). If the proposal is to lock down the repository and requires approval, that will make the development very slow. Not even in the banking would a manager want to ask “why” all the time...