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		paul_f on April 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with t... During down time, work on outside projects. Nobody knows which project you're working on. It's just a editor with code :-)

ProjectArcturis on April 8, 2021 [–]

Good idea, but for data-security reasons, they disabled all the USB drives. It would have been quite a challenge to get the code out without a trace. Probably no one would have cared if I emailed it to myself, but it would have been a very bad look.

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