Ask HN: How will my employer know if I use their resource to build my project
As a software engineer, I&#x27;m aware that some companies have IP laws that mean &quot;we own whatever you build if you use our resources to build it&quot;(edited). I have also known people who build out an MVP while working at another company and after some time get sued for IP rights because they used company resource like the Internet, hardware etc.<p>My question is how will the company know if I actually used their resource to build my MVP?<p>Say I have a private Git repository and I work on my project secretly and push to this repository and I never use company proprietary technology. If no one ever sees&#x2F;notice me working on this, how will they ever know I used company resource.<p>I&#x27;m really curious about how they find out because of course, they don&#x27;t have access to private Git repositories and unless anyone is actively tracking your hardware and scanning for side projects I doubt if they will ever notice.<p>How will they ever know?