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by ycombasks 4431 days ago
I wonder, if this is the way a majority of big businesses do things, how come we don't see more leaks of entire codebases? It'd be trivial to put something up on TPB and just share all the code, but I don't see things like that happening. I also doubt that every single employee with access to the code has the moral standards not to do this. There must be something else keeping them from doing it.
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I'd wager they are more likely to get leaked to the black market for money where someone will keep it a secret in the hopes of finding some 0 days.
I'd say the combination of some moral standards, the fear of getting caught and - first of all - little incentive to leak should be sufficient, no?