35. Something is rotten in the Torrid Culture

After liquidating its rotten assets, Torrid Inc. laid back on its chair. "Very well", it thought, "now let's focus on what's important".
It called itself onto meeting and cut straight to the chase.
"Someone's contaminating Torrid Culture".
"Some of our human assets have been willing even to return their consignated livewares so they could leave Torrid immediately. We must block this hemorrage, for - as if it weren't enough - its source seems to be contagious. The contaminated VeriSim has started to spread out over the colonies; that's the place it's been undully posted on our intranet from. Some of our assets have watched it before it could be removed. Landau has watched said VS and, even though he was wearing neural blockage, he almost gave in. Its growth has not been exponential thanks to damage containment, but we must smoke out its source before the losses get astronomical. Legal is already bugging Sidero about partial confidentiality breaking of the VeriSim patent as for PoliTrust Pact v.36.7c – having reported back an unpleasant lack of cooperation".
"Oh, and Landau is already all over it".