Практика Shadowing: OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy... - Изучайте разговорный английский по видео
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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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Лексика и советы по произношению к этому уроку
Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «OpenAI’s lead engineer was secretly a spy..». Чаще всего повторяются слова: Openai, device, executive, Github, agent. В этом видео 55 предложений и 1034 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 5:04. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 204 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. Только 78% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка, поэтому лексика сложная.
Ключевая лексика этого видео
15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| complaint существительное | /kəmˈpleɪnt/ | жа́лоба, недово́льство |
| ambassador существительное | /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/ | посо́л |
| wrap глагол | /ɹæp/ | завора́чивать, заверну́ть |
| audio прилагательное | /ˈɔ.di.oʊ/ | а́удио-, звуково́й |
| impressive прилагательное | /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/ | впечатля́ющий, внуши́тельный |
| cloud существительное | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | о́блако, ту́ча |
| infrastructure существительное | /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/ | инфраструкту́ра |
| sensitive прилагательное | /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/ | чувстви́тельный, чу́ткий |
| trail существительное | /tɹeɪl/ | след |
| replacement существительное | /ɹɪˈpleɪsmənt/ | заме́на, замеще́ние |
| wire существительное | /ˈwaɪɚ/ | про́волока, про́вод |
| friendship существительное | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | дру́жба, прия́тельство |
| journalist существительное | /ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst/ | журнали́ст, журнали́стка |
| resident существительное | /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ | жи́тель, жи́тельница |
| routine существительное | /ɹuˈtin/ | рути́на, распоря́док |
Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите
| Слово | Произношение | Значение |
|---|---|---|
| figure out глагол | разбира́ться, разобра́ться | |
| find out глагол | узнава́ть, узна́ть | |
| leave behind глагол | оставля́ть, оста́вить | |
| look up глагол | /ˌlʊk ˈʌp/ | улучша́ться |
| point out глагол | ука́зывать, указа́ть | |
| turn out глагол | ока́зываться, оказа́ться |
Грамматика в этом видео
Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:
| Конструкция | В видео |
|---|---|
| Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете | guy who got · guy who builds · else, which is |
| Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает | being celebrated · being charged · are expected |
| Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас | has scrapped · has been |
Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание
Говорящий использует 9 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например you're, I'm, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.
- Звуки «sh» и «zh»: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, affection /əˈfɛk.ʃən/, espionage /ˈɛs.pi.əˌnɑːʒ/
- Длинные слова — следите за ударением: ambassador /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, allegedly /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/, prosecutor /ˈpɹɑ.səˌkjuːˌtəɹ/, investigative /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡətɪv/
Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:
- /w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: wire /ˈwaɪɚ/, wooden /ˈwʊdn̩/, qualify /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ/, suite /swiːt/, quietly /ˈkwaɪ.ɪt.li/
- Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, cloud /ˈklaʊ̯d/, sensitive /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/, installed /ɪnˈstɔːld/, footage /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/
Как заниматься с этим видео
- Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
- Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
- Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как complaint, ambassador, wrap.
Что такое техника Shadowing?
Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.