Then you are overlooking two things that provide important context: her previous behavior in similar circumstances of discovering bugs, and the opening sentence:
> My life as a mercenary sysadmin can be interesting.
To me this reads as "I was hired as a consutant for something that required a very restrictive NDA."
> My life as a mercenary sysadmin can be interesting.
To me this reads as "I was hired as a consutant for something that required a very restrictive NDA."