That is a very good point.

I've had an idea that I have been letting simmer for awhile that I believe could be revolutionary (but who doesn't think that about their own great ideas, huh?) but there is no way I would post about it for that very reason. Heck, I'm thinking about putting on the tin foil hat just to prevent others from eavesdropping on my brainwaves. Google Skynet could be listening right now.

No, but seriously. I am going to make sure I have at least something established where it would be too much work for someone else to replicate. Maybe that's what people gotta do these days.

That is making ones project have intentional elements of complexity to throw off would-be intellectual thieves. Kind of like the same line of thinking against becoming victim of any enterprising criminal. That is making one's self or product a "hard target".