Say, Windows source code before leaving Microsoft. Or PageRank (if you had access), before leaving Google. It can be useful for future reference imo. To learn about great software design and dive into some critical secrets. I know it can be illegal, because it's company's property and stuff (and obviously you won't ever publish it on GitHub), but still?
How would that even come to mind, it's incredibly unethical. Besides, critical production software like the ones you described can be based on amazingly well designed architectures, but it will be filled with expediency for dealing with legacy compatibility, edge cases and tactical scope extensions that are too urgent to be accommodated by adjusting the design. Unless you are diving in for finding vulnerabilities (see the first point about that) you won't find knowledge that is transferable enough to other domains that is worth the 747 headed to your anus if you get caught.
In 2012, a Microsoft intern I knew was working on office. He decided, for shits and giggles, to copy the source code of office to an external USB drive. Exactly eleven minutes later while the transfer was happening, he was shown the door.
I didn't know that msit had *this much* monitoring going on our work machines....now I'm even more paranoid.
I accidentally typed in my ldap password in another website when I worked at Google and immediately got an email prompting me to change my password
I would just like to say that the feature I'm working on would make this very hard and traceable. Don't do this on windows in 2016
No. I wash my hands and happy to not see that ever again.
> Say, Windows source code before leaving Microsoft. > To learn about great software design ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
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"It can be illegal." Lol. It's highly unethical and depending on what type of legal agreement you signed when you started, it is the very definition of stealing. Just because it's virtual property doesn't mean it's not valuable. Or do you work for free?
my old boss at a former company told me a new hire handed him some competitive information from their former employer. he threw it in the trash, called HR, and informed the former employer.
Of course not. Wtf??
No way
That's just asking for trouble.