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  New, by me: An OpenAI employee on the product team has been arrested by the FBI and charged with planting a secret recording device in an OpenAI conference room. The Saudi national was arrested last week and fired on Friday after OpenAI allegedly caught him. More: https:// techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/fbi-…

  zackwhittaker@mastodon.socialMastodon9h ago42▲view on Mastodon ↗
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  🚨🇺🇸🇸🇦 FBI arrested a Saudi OpenAI engineer for allegedly PLANTING A HIDDEN MIC in an executive conference room, and OpenAI used its own AI to catch him. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, allegedly hid a recorder behind a TV. OpenAI identified and fired him before handing the case to

  @MarioNawfalX9h ago30▲view on X ↗
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  Saudi OpenAI Engineer Arrested Over Alleged Secret Recording Device Source:

  ahmadalgohbary.bsky.socialBluesky9h ago3▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  How far have we fallen? Spies used to put effort into these sorts of things.When the Soviets wanted to spy on the American embassy, they energized the steel rebars to act as antennas. The structure was so wired that the entire building was the bug. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Docume...Toilet paper, ESP-32 and Claude "make…

  areoformHacker News8h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  TL;DR: An OpenAI engineer, Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested for allegedly hiding a sophisticated recording device in a conference room, facing charges for intercepting oral communications. https://www. theverge.com/ai-artificial-int elligence/1010642/openai-employee-arrested-recording-device # law # tech # legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 # autosum

  SuffolkLITLab@esq.socialMastodon9h agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  NEWS RELEASE out of @FBISanFrancisco: Saudi National Arrested for Installing Surreptitious Audio Recording Device at San Francisco Super Intelligence Company Read more about how this #FBI is protecting American businesses and defending national security. https://www.justice.gov/... [image]

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  These are not very smart spies:> A chatbot account tied to Alfozan’s spouse, which shared identifiers with his own account, submitted prompts between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30 about building, installing, obscuring, and remotely accessing a recording device, prosecutors said. Queries included how to “build a continuous audio recorder” and “encrypt the…

  simonwHacker News9h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  An OpenAI engineer is charged over a listening device in the boardroom https:// thenextweb.com/news/openai-emp loyee-arrested-device?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into TNW - All Stories @ tnw-all-stories-thenextweb

  thenextweb@flipboard.comMastodon8h agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  🚨An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications. 🔗:

  @dojnatsecX10h agoview on X ↗
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  Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested Friday and charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications.

  delichonHacker News10h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  A Saudi engineer at OpenAI arrested for allegedly bugging his employer’s executive conference room. - DoJ

  newsguyusa@threads.netMastodon8h agoview on Mastodon ↗
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  Thank god security at a company which...checks notes...has remote code execution on every developers laptop and access to practically unlimited secrets uploaded by its agents...is top notch.

  VBprogrammerHacker News8h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  This guy previously worked at Meta from 2017 to 2022 on Data Infrastructure projects.I expect Meta are running an audit right now to figure out if he was involved in espionage back then as well.

  simonwHacker News9h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  Especially since you an just buy one, like Plaud and tape it to the underside of the desk, surreptitiously, instead of suspiciously accessing the back of the TV.

  solyinHacker News8h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  Learning that every thought you’ve put into an LLM, is recorded and readily available for evidence is going to be interesting for a lot of people.

  adamm255Hacker News9h agoview on Hacker News ↗
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  Part of the evidence was his wife's chatgpt logs.Remember kids, uncle Sam can see anything you tell your AI and will use that against you.

  throwa356262Hacker News9h agoview on Hacker News ↗