Security Contractor Blew The Whistle On Support Crew's Viral Indifference
The Register, Monday, March 30th, 2026
Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of things you did at work that had interesting consequences. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Brad" who once worked as a security contractor.
On one job, his client downsized its office space and no longer had a desk for Brad to use. He therefore ended up working for the client while sitting at a desk in the office of the labor hire company that arranged his contracts.
That odd arrangement meant Brad had to be careful not to expose client data to the labor hire company, but careful use of external storage sorted that out.
And then one day the antivirus system on Brad's PC popped up with a warning and a cute animation of a wriggling bug.