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It is a good point, Dave.
What really should be protected is qualified personnel which do the job.
Unfortunately, way too often the person who knows what he/she is doing
gets fired first.
Regards,
Igor
dalexander wrote:
I
think more to the point is to consult a lawyer to see how to set up a system
of protecting against theft of electronic information. Employees sign a
letter of aggreement not to remove or copy electronic information for use
elsewhere. If they violate this agrement then what is the penality? Some
blocks are can be identified by their mistakes and you could add specific
entities, dots at specific locations, under intersections of lines that
had no specific use to identify the blocks. You would have to archive copies
of each such block, ( a write once cd would work) to prove by date that
the blocks where yours. It is alot of work to set up and keep current.
The tail wagging the dog comes to mind. Either you can trust your employees
or you cannot. We have had this happen to us where the employee took our
system to another office and then said that it was his. This didn't really
help him as the other office quickly realized that he had taken the system
from us and consquently he was not a truthfull person. He or they are still
using what he took (r10 ) and hasn't been able to advance to paper space.
What we try to do is stay current and advance our system whenever anyone
leaves. Fortunately, we are a small office and we do not have a turnover
rate to speak of. Most of the important system stuff, is not the blocks
but way you manage the information and if someone sees how it is done,
they will be able to do it the same way. I don't think that you can protect
this and I don't think that it is worth trying. I know that this doesn't
really answer the question that you asked but I think that the issue is
bigger than just protecting your blocks. Dave Alexander