Ask HN: Technical Solutions to Protecting IP

1 pointiroddis4 comments

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.

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How are you planning on stopping the camera on a phone?

You need legal protection.

A 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.

You still need legal protection. You have no IP protection without it.

Good luck!

Hiring someone good and treating them well is even better than lawyers.

Don't put your energy into making things suck.

Good luck.

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