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To Google, a laptop is worthless compared to their intellectual property.
by enneff 4y ago
To 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.