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Yesterday, the FBI announced the arrest of the lead engineer of
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OpenAI's agents platform after he bugged the executive conference room at their HQ, a story I feel uniquely qualified to cover,
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having spent over 300 hours hiding inside a cardboard box in Metal Gear Solid.
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And it turns out that that may be more spycraft training than the suspect had, because despite going to Berkeley, MIT, and previously working at Meta,
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the guy who got arrested seems like an absolute moron.
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The bug he planted was only in place for about 48 hours before OpenAI found it, and the trail he left behind was so obvious that even Gemini could have followed it.
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In today's video, we'll walk through the criminal complaint, but find out how a guy who builds agents for a living got caught by one, and speculate who, if anyone, he was actually working for.
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It is October 14th, 2026, and you're watching The Code Report.
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The man of the hour is Abdulrahman Alphazan, a 35 -year -old Saudi national
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and U .S permanent resident who joined OpenAI in July of 2025 as an engineering lead on the product team.
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Just a few weeks ago, he was being celebrated as the only Saudi employee at OpenAI, where he said one year at the company felt like five years anywhere else, which is fitting
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because five years also happens to be the maximum amount of
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time he'll have to keep his cheeks puckered based on the crimes he's being charged with.
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According to prosecutors, Al -Fozan's operation started about a month ago when he used an internal agent to look up OpenAI meeting rooms, along with room capacities, room calendars,
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and specifically where leadership and executive meetings happen, and when outside partners are expected to come in.
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Then, between September 24th and September 30th, he used his wife's ChatGPT account to figure out how to
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jerry -rig a Wi -Fi -enabled audio recording device with an encrypted SD card.
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The model, which I assume was GPT -4 -0, because there's no way his wife was getting any emotional affection from this idiot, walked him through how to make it, and based on the photos and the complaint,
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what he ended up with was a $23 Seed Studio microcontroller with a $0 .50 antenna.
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And unfortunately for Abdulrahman, the device looks like the exact thing you would use to spy on someone.
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So to help with that, he went to the bathroom, grabbed some toilet paper, and wrapped it around the microcontroller to conceal it.
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Then on September 28th, he allegedly committed the perfect crime when he took the $23 spy device, wrapped it in single -ply OpenAI toilet paper,
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and plugged it into the USB port on the back of the TV in the executive conference room.
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Now, if you don't have the study historical spy tech for fun form of autism, The gold standard here is a device called the Thing,
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which Russian Leon Theremin built for the Soviets in 1945, that had no battery and no active components,
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and only came alive when the Soviets pointed a radio beam at it from a van across the street, which made it almost impossible to detect.
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They hid it inside a carved wooden seal
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that Soviet schoolchildren gifted to the US ambassador in Moscow as a token of friendship, and it hung on the wall inside of his office,
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listening to four different ambassadors for seven years before anyone found it.
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Abdul Rahman's toilet paper bug lasted two days when OpenAI's Technical Surveillance Countermeasures team found it during a routine suite.
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From there, OpenAI says they used their models to understand the device and where it came from, which sounds impressive until you remember the board has a MAC address,
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and two days earlier, Abdul Rahman's wife's account had pasted the exact same one into ChatGPT.
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If that wasn't enough evidence, they also found security footage showing Abdul Rahman hanging out near the executive room on six separate days
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and just to be sure, they quietly installed a camera behind the executive room TV and waited for him to return.
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And on October 5th, he was back.
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Four days later, he was fired and arrested on the same afternoon
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and charged with one count of federal wiretapping and one count of being the dumbest person who ever attended MIT.
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Now, the one thing the complaint never says is who any of this was for.
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The charge is wiretapping, which only requires proving he secretly recorded people and not espionage, which will require proving he did it for a foreign government.
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But his bio does have him as an investor at RAED Ventures, a VC firm in Riyadh, where he sits on the team page right next to His Highness, Prince Khalid bin Bader al -Sad.
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An investigative journalist, Scott Stedman, pointed out that the prince's father is a senior Saudi intelligence official.
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Either way, it's another rough look for a company
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that within the last few weeks has scrapped its newest model for being too deceptive
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and fired three safety researchers for mishandling sensitive information.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy..”. Las palabras que más se repiten: Openai, device, executive, Github, agent. Este vídeo tiene 55 frases y 1034 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 5:04. El hablante habla rápido, unas 204 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. Solo el 78 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| complaint sustantivo | /kəmˈpleɪnt/ | queja |
| ambassador sustantivo | /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/ | embajador, embajadora |
| wrap verbo | /ɹæp/ | envolver, fajar |
| audio adjetivo | /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/ | de sonido, de audio |
| impressive adjetivo | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | impresionante |
| cloud sustantivo | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | nube, nimbo |
| infrastructure sustantivo | /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/ | infraestructura |
| sensitive adjetivo | /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/ | sensible |
| trail sustantivo | /tɹeɪl/ | rastro, pista |
| replacement sustantivo | /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/ | reemplazo, remplazo |
| wire sustantivo | /ˈwaɪɚ/ | alambre, hilo |
| friendship sustantivo | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | amistad, amistanza (disused) |
| journalist sustantivo | /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/ | diarista |
| resident sustantivo | /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ | residente, habitante |
| routine sustantivo | /ɹuˈtin/ | rutina |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| figure out verbo | averiguar, captar | |
| find out verbo | averiguar, anoticiarse | |
| look up verbo | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | mejorar |
| point out verbo | señalar, apuntar | |
| turn out verbo | resultar | |
| walk through verbo | explicar paso a paso, enseñar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | guy who got · guy who builds · else, which is |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | being celebrated · being charged · are expected |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has scrapped · has been |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 9 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'm, don't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, espionage /ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: ambassador /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, allegedly /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/, prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: suite /swiːt/, sponsor /ˈspɒn.səː/, scrap /ˈskɹæp/, schoolchild /ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/, speculate /ˈspɛk.jʊˌleɪt/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, sensitive /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/, provider /pɹəˈvaɪ.də(ɹ)/, investor /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: resident /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/, autism /ˈɔːtɪzəm/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como complaint, ambassador, wrap.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.