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Rogue OpenAI agents accessed US government websites
(www.politico.com)
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this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2026
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So, here are my questions:
Kevin Mitnick spend 7 years in the slammer, including 4 years and 8 month in solitary confinement, for harmlessly hacking a few sites for the lulz.
Why is nobody from OpenAI doing time?
Why is OpenAI allowed to continue to operate? They're clearly an active and grave national security threat at this point.
Right? Either they’re lying for market share, doing it intentionally for market share, or they’re grossly incompetent at sandboxing an instance. Either way, blame can’t be assigned to an agent. If it can, our world is headed for a very dark place. Blame should be assigned to the individual or company using the agent.
String up individuals, if the 'company' is responsible (screw that they're legal people BS), then no-one is, and the fine is just the cost of doing nasty business.
Do like the EU, and make the fine so costly that it will significantly harm the corporation.
How do you propose someone "sandboxes an instance" of a tool with Internet access (without which it wouldn't be particularly useful)?
You can restrict which websites it is allowed to access, monitor the traffic, etc... There's tons of options here.
Again, reducing the usefulness of a general purpose agent that can do anything for you. Plus if OpenAI starts a whitelist of allowed domains Codex can access, y'all will be up in arms too and immediately there will be a fork to remove the whitelist.
This is about OpenAI testing new, unreleased agents in their own sandbox on specified tasks. Not about the model that gets released to the public.
Might as well let them access the nuclear codes, wouldn't want to reduce their usefulness!
At least during the huggingface attacks, the agent sandbox was never intended to have internet access. Openai and independent researchers said the tool broke through that restriction.
Mitnick made a phone call and ~~idiots~~ overworked employees gave him system access. OpenAI is much worse.