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How to Prevent IP Theft by Your Own Employees?
Cursed by USB asks: "We are a small software startup based in India. Recently one of our employees was caught trying to steal our IP (work) from a computer using a USB thumb drive. While all the staff computers are devoid of floppy drives, cd writers and internet connections, we simply cannot disable the USB ports since there are a lot of USB enabled peripherals that we use. Apart from trying to hire "trustworthy" people, are there any other bright ideas that Slashdot readers might have in this regard to help prevent such theft from workplace?"
Wow, the expertise must overflow from this place. Software developers who can't figure out how to restrict access from things. Remind me to never outsource.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
when it comes to avoiding intellectual property, I have this plan...but if I told you, I'd have to kill you.
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Great idea! We'll just make it so our software developers don't have access to the code. Then they won't be able to steal anything!
Oh wait...
If you had super powers, would you use them for good, or for awesome?
staff computers are devoid of floppy drives, cd writers and internet connections
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Do they have Email Access?
This takes not reading the article/blurb to all new lows.
Don't put up with this nonsense.
Set up security stations and look for people with USB drives. When you discover someone obscounding with IP, call an all hands meeting and cane the SoB. If caning is illegal in your area, just knock the guy to the floor and have the entire group stomp him. (This is also a teambuilding exercise)
Corporal punishment will assert your IP authority and eliminate other disiplinary issues.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Fire all but your most trusted employees and outsource the rest to the US. I hear its all the rage in India.
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Install EMP/HERF guns and degousing coils around the doors so any magnetic or solid slate device is destroyed upon exiting the building. Ban tinfoil and make sure not to employ anyone with a pacemaker. Tell everyone to leave their cellphones in their cars and use an internal VOIP system for communication. Make sure any company healthcare doesn't cover radiation poisoning/cancer so your premiums don't go up.
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That's because it's stealthy.
To enter you must ping the webserver on several ports in the correct order.
Shh don't say a word about it.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.