A little question that I've had for years.

Let's say that you're Google and employ 60k software engineers. Every one of those engineers has access to your monorepo with all of its code, and little to no guardrails on copying whatever code they may want to. You have employees from dozens of countries and backgrounds, each with varied motivations. Any of them could bring their work laptop home on a random tuesday, download the code for any million/ billion dollar product and copy/ move it to another device, if they really wanted to.

Why don't we ever see this happen? Obviously, it's illegal, but people have broken the law for less. It wouldn't be hard for an individual to copy/ paste an entire million/ billion dollar product and sell it to an undercover buyer secretly for personal gain. It also would not be hard for a foreign government to insert an employee from their country to steal IP and copy those products in its own for economic/ political gain.

I there something that I'm missing here?…