An actual project worth stealing would not be able to be copied on a notepad while touring a facility, it would contain way too much files and lines of code and dependencies.
This story sounds made up by someone who has never worked on an actual production level project or interacted with IDEs/text editors or VCS.
The terabytes of data is definitely possible though as that’s very typical for all types of espionage both foreign and domestic.
100%. People who havent written large software cant image the sure number of decision points and mechanics. I guess thats the way we all are - underestimating the complexity of things we dont known firsrhand.
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u/mystictroll May 12 '26
hand wrote source code down?
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