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It's not your code, it's Google's and I don't see how this is an anti-pattern. It is actually one of the best thought out solutions to balancing source code sup
by dlp211 4y ago
It's not your code, it's Google's and I don't see how this is an anti-pattern. It is actually one of the best thought out solutions to balancing source code supply chain security and productivity. The fact that the industry has moved towards git and allows employees to clone proprietary codebases onto developer machines anywhere in the world is pure insanity.
- saagarjha 4y agoIt’s also Google’s laptop but maybe they should have me remote into it instead of letting me touch it. Who knows, I might steal it…
- enneff 4y agoTo Google, a laptop is worthless compared to their intellectual property.
- saagarjha 4y agoIt's more the principle of the thing–if I wanted to steal code from Google their "no source code on laptops" policy wouldn't stop me at all. And given that I don't actually want to steal code the policy sucks, so the real question is what the benefit is here by treating me like a criminal.
- enneff 4y agoIt’s not that a google employee would steal the code, it’s that if a laptop is compromised the access to the source code can be immediately revoked. So if someone steals an employee’s laptop and coerces their password from them, the source code can not be accessed for long, and exactly what source code was seen is known.