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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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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה C1 מבוסס על הסרטון “OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy..”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: Openai, device, executive, Github, agent. בסרטון הזה יש 55 משפטים ו-1034 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 5:04. הדובר מדבר מהר, כ-204 מילים בדקה, אז צפו לצלילים מחוברים ומקוצרים. רק 78% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית, כך שאוצר המילים מאתגר.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
15 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| deceptive שם תואר | /dɪˈsɛp.tɪv/ | מטעה, שקרי |
| encrypt פועל | /ɪnˈkɹɪpt/ | הצפין |
| espionage שם עצם | /ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ/ | ריגול, רִגּוּל |
| schoolchild שם עצם | /ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/ | תַּלְמִיד |
| semicolon שם עצם | /ˈsɛmikoʊlən/ | נקודה ופסיק \ נְקֻדָּה וּפְסִיק |
| cardboard שם עצם | /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/ | קַרְטוֹן |
| antenna שם עצם | /ænˈtɛn.ə/ | מחוש, אַנְטֶנָה |
| token שם עצם | /ˈtoʊkən/ | אֲסִימוֹן, זִ׳יטוֹן |
| bot שם עצם | /bɑt/ | בּוֹט |
| prosecutor שם עצם | /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/ | קָטֵגוֹר |
| investor שם עצם | /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/ | מַשְׁקִיעַ |
| cheek שם עצם | /t͡ʃiːk/ | לֶחִי |
| autism שם עצם | /ˈɔːtɪzəm/ | אוטיזם |
| detect פועל | /dɪˈtɛkt/ | גילה, זיהה |
| allegedly תואר הפועל | /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/ | לִכְאוֹרָה |
Phrasal verbs שתשמעו
| מילה | משמעות |
|---|---|
| figure out פועל | הֵבִין, מצא תשובה |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | guy who got · guy who builds · else, which is |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | being celebrated · being charged · are expected |
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | has scrapped · has been |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-9 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו you're, I'm, don't. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: espionage /ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: microcontroller /ˈmaɪkɹoʊkənˌtɹoʊlɚ/, espionage /ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ/, semicolon /ˈsɛmikoʊlən/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/, prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: wiretap /ˈwaɪɚtæp/, mishandle /mɪsˈhændəl/, antenna /ænˈtɛn.ə/, scrap /ˈskɹæp/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: microcontroller /ˈmaɪkɹoʊkənˌtɹoʊlɚ/, encrypt /ɪnˈkɹɪpt/, pucker /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/, cardboard /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/, relay /ˈɹiːleɪ/
- עיצור קולי בסוף מילה — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ בלי להפוך אותם לאטומים: deceptive /dɪˈsɛp.tɪv/, espionage /ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ/, schoolchild /ˈskuːlt͡ʃaɪld/, cardboard /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו deceptive, encrypt, espionage.
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