Info security pilot fish gets a call from a friend on the help desk with a request that’s not exactly the sort of thing he’d want to file as a trouble ticket.

“Barney asked if we would help play a gag on someone who was joining their team shortly from another department,” says fish. “He told us she had just bought a new mouse for her laptop and was quite pleased with it.”

That’s enough for fish, who opens his instant messaging client and sends a message to the soon-to-join-the-help-desk user: Hi, I work in information security. One of our reports has highlighted the use of illegal non-company-approved equipment on your machine. Can you confirm that you are only using standard company equipment, please? We’ve raised this as a security incident so before we escalate, please confirm. Thanks.

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