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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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This has been the Code Report, thanks for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy..”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: Openai, device, executive, Github, agent. Deze video bevat 55 zinnen en 1034 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:04. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 204 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. Slechts 78% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| complaint zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəmˈpleɪnt/ | klacht, beklag |
| ambassador zelfstandig naamwoord | /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/ | ambassadeur |
| wrap werkwoord | /ɹæp/ | inpakken, omhullen |
| impressive bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | indrukwekkend, imposant |
| cloud zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | wolk |
| infrastructure zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/ | infrastructuur |
| sensitive bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/ | gevoelig, prikkelbaar |
| trail zelfstandig naamwoord | /tɹeɪl/ | spoor |
| replacement zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/ | vervanger, plaatsvervanger |
| wire zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈwaɪɚ/ | draad |
| friendship zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | vriendschap |
| journalist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/ | dagboekschrijver |
| resident zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ | inwoner |
| commit werkwoord | /kəˈmɪt/ | toevertrouwen, toewijzen |
| wooden bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈwʊdn̩/ | houten |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| figure out werkwoord | uitvogelen, er achter komen | |
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken | |
| leave behind werkwoord | achterlaten | |
| look up werkwoord | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | opkijken |
| point out werkwoord | aanwijzen, aanduiden | |
| turn out werkwoord | uitvallen, resulteren |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | guy who got · guy who builds · else, which is |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | being celebrated · being charged · are expected |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has scrapped · has been |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 9 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, I'm, don't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, espionage /ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: ambassador /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, allegedly /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/, prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/, sensitive /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/, installed /ɪnˈstɔːld/, footage /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: ambassador /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/, wrap /ɹæp/, calendar /ˈkæl.ən.də/, scrap /ˈskɹæp/, antenna /ænˈtɛn.ə/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: bug /bʌɡ/, plug /plʌɡ/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als complaint, ambassador, wrap.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.