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leaks of what exactly? It's billions of lines of code spread amongst millions of files which make up thousands of services... It's not like there 10 files with
by danielmarkbruce 5y ago
leaks of what exactly? It's billions of lines of code spread amongst millions of files which make up thousands of services... It's not like there 10 files with all the magic sauce.
- zeven7 5y agoTo add to this, it's not all on every engineer's machine. It's not like they can just walk out of the office with a computer with all the source code. It's on a virtual file system that requests files as needed, and you can bet there are systems set up to detect if someone is just downloading the whole thing for no reason.
- chii 5y agoit's not even that. if you assume that the entire codebase was leaked verbatim, it would still take entrenched knowledge of many google engineers to replicate the same services and infrastructure to support those services. If any state actor who stole that code could deploy such engineering capabilities, they don't really need the source code tbh.