While You're Here, Could You Go Out Of Your Way To Do An Impossible Job?
The Register, Friday, March 20th, 2026
He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB
This week, a slight variation as we meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Finn," who shared a story of a sales call.
"I was working for the European branch of a large US-based engineering company, mainly providing development consultancy, though we had a few products we sold on the side," Finn told On Call.
The job sometimes involved travel to the US, and on one of those trips Finn's colleagues asked the most dangerous question known to humanity: "While you're here, could you just...?"