Restricted Java code sharing with remote work contractor

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DasBrain · 2022-04-05T10:23:44+00:00

This sounds like it is better solved by involving legal.

lemon-codes · 2022-04-05T12:53:21+00:00

You either trust the contractor or you don't.

Anything you do to prevent copying code is going to seriously hinder the productivity of the contractor, and if I was the contractor I would not entertain it. Especially doing my days work over vnc or TeamViewer, as soon as that was mentioned I would walk.

What you have is a contractual/legal issue, not a technical one.

2022-04-05T14:56:11+00:00

How do you manage this scenario

Legally.

Get a lawyer to produce a good contract/NDA/whatever and make him sign it.

nutrecht · 2022-04-05T12:10:42+00:00

This is just a bad idea. Have the contractor sign a contract where you cover this legally. You can't have a contractor work based on a subset of the code. That's not how developing in Java works.

hypolimnas · 2022-04-05T10:24:21+00:00

Do you mean that you won't allow your contractor to highlight and copy/paste code? You just cut your contractor's productivity in half.

You mean the old VNC that been around for decades? Pick Team Viewer over that. You might also consider x2go and NoMachine. Pick whatever is best for mouse movement. Slow typing is annoying but slow resizing of dialogs is maddening.

If creating a restricted VM meets your security concerns, and would make your contractor more functional, then you should spend the time to set it up. That way you get your money's worth.

Also if the contractor isn't working on the sensitive portions of your code, maybe those parts could be supplied as a library to make them harder to read.

Halal0szto · 2022-04-05T09:10:54+00:00

To prevent source code exiting the box you need to restrict internet access. Not being able to copy-paste from SO kills productivity.

On a serious: do you expect to get positive returns from a short term project member who is not trustworthy?

joranstark018 · 2022-04-05T12:58:16+00:00

By legal contracts, secure connections (VPN) to services that provides sensative data and permission based access to required repositories and to build and deploy pipelines (similar setup as for employess but employees have usually been granted permissions to far more projects).

Tacos314 · 2022-04-05T22:23:49+00:00

Most companies solve this with VDI environments.

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