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I have a few 10-15 year old repositories backed up somewhere, but surprise surprise, nobody (including myself) cares. It’s theoretically possible for someone t
by Aeolun 3y ago
I have a few 10-15 year old repositories backed up somewhere, but surprise surprise, nobody (including myself) cares.
It’s theoretically possible for someone to do something bad with them, but it’s just not realistic for 99.999% of the population. I guess it becomes an issue when you have 100k employees.
- jacquesm 3y agoI would care. 10-15 year old is probably no longer an issue but technically they're a liability and if they were much younger (which at some point they were) they would be a much larger liability as well as an issue if you ever went to work for a competitor and this came to light (like it just did...). It's not to your advantage to have copies of your former employer's IP and possibly even data laying around. Hostile audits are a thing too, again, on 10 to 15 year old code probably not because that code either has changed considerably or it may have been abandoned.
- xorcist 3y agoThat is still clearly intellectual property after 15 years. There could be trade secrets in there. And the slightest suspicion of which is a good reason to sue you, should anyone every need a reason to. It could be an personal conflict spun out of control or an incompetent manager needing someone to blame for a failed business or whatever. If there are any customer data or logs in there, then you could be personally liable under data protection laws. They might not even have an expire date, depending on what kind of data it is. Better safe than sorry, unless you think you have something to gain from keeping that data around.