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Ask HN: Technical Solutions to Protecting IP
Hello HN,
Legal methods seem like the best way to protect IP from a business perspective, but it's a big step to take for a solo developer taking on their first new hire.
Do you have any recommendations on how to protect IP and code/data copying by an employee? I've seen solutions as heavyweight as VPNs + virtual desktops (VDIs like Citrix), but I'm wondering what a typical small startup security setup looks like.
- nullindividual 2y agoHow are you planning on stopping the camera on a phone? You need legal protection.
- iroddis 2y agoA large codebase would require many pictures. Maybe it's possible if you took a video and figured out a way to optimally scroll the data so as to reconstitute the codebase via AI / OCR, but that's a lot more work than most people are willing to put into it. The goal isn't to stop all possible avenues of IP extraction, just to make the barrier a bit higher than git clone / git push.
- nullindividual 2y agoYou still need legal protection. You have no IP protection without it. Good luck!
- brudgers 2y agoHiring someone good and treating them well is even better than lawyers. Don't put your energy into making things suck. Good luck.