[thaneross]

It's a fascinating set of priories that lead to these policies.

"We trust you enough to run your code in production but we can't let you read another team's code because you might steal it. Yes, the odds that anyone wants to steal the code for this mundane microservice are staggeringly low... and yes you're going to be less productive and more prone to serious bugs by being in the dark, but that's your problem."

[bluefirebrand]

I honestly don't even know if it's "you might steal it"

It's just this vague notion of "if you aren't contributing to this repo you don't need to access it" or something.