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Don't kid yourself, there is nothing you can do to prevent people from 'stealing' code they are working on if they are working from home or any other place where someone is not looking over their shoulder 100% of the time.

There are reasons to force people to work on a corporate machine, preventing them from stealing code is not one of them.

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You can't prevent any kind of theft 100%. The point of these measures is to make stealing as hard as possible without impeding work.

Some guy commented on taking photos - are y'all really planning on taking a photo for every 200 lines, on scripts with lines in the thousands, in repos which contain tens to hundreds of files, which are just for one product? When your company is probably supporting more than a couple products?

How would people steal code if they're on a corporate laptop and a VPN that blocks & tracks?

If sufficiently motivated, take pics with your phone. With a good camera, you could minify a lot of code into a tiny font size, take a photo or multiple photos, and OCR them later.

Or encrypt the whole repo and just send it to a bucket somewhere. I mean there's got to be a lot of ways to do it if you really want to.

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