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I worked as a contractor for a large media company in Europe (fully remote, from Italy). We had company issued laptops prepackaged with corporate tooling (VPNs, accounts, etc.) and that came with a fair bit of corporate-spyware included from _at least_ couple different vendors.

At one point, I was writing a small demo in golang for one of our projects and I've been contacted by a security engineer telling me that I've been hitting C:\Users\<yada>\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build2923888066\b001\exe\main.exe too frequently and that called a `cryptsp.dll` that according to him was highly correlated with ransomware attacks. I was adviced to stop working on that until my manager confirmed this was legitimate activity. I must admit, I've been quite freaked by the fact that they were listening for the single executables launched on my machine.

Needless to say, this dragged on for a week due to complex internal politics. I thoroughly enjoyed a week of paid time off.