Either way, there goes the false flag and the reason for companies to stop hiring humans over this espionage.
Good time to start a company that builds giant Faraday cages over data centers.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested Friday and charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications.
Not exactly the archetype you have in mind when you're thinking of a sophisticated espionage operation (as OAI is putting it).
I was making a joke, but it does look like they got their components from Seeed Studio based on photos.
https://assets.sfstandard.com/image/994911177489/image_k101c...
Back of a TV is a decent hiding place. Wonder how they found it -was it actively transmitting?
Concealing a recording device in a conference room in toilet paper is a bit strange. Do executives meet in the toilets to discuss strategic moves?
(Or maybe you spend two hours on the phone to them talking about all kinds of stuff while also scribbling a note to your PA saying “EMPLOYEE JOE BUG STORY LEAKED TO VALLEYWAG PUT OUT COUNTER PR GET AGEAD OF STORY” and hoping they get a tweet out before the valleywag gumshoe gets off the phone.)
(Or maybe you keep a notion.so page pre-filled with all your secrets and each one has a burn button next to it, ready for you to tap when ValleyWag call up for a comment on their upcoming exposé on PR/Disasters/20206090500039.md)
in this context, they should be more specific about how terminal s/he is
But no the boring answer is that after they found the device they left it in place and planted the camera to see who came looking for it.
Unless you mean, it happened to be actively transmitting during a(n investigative) sweep.
Still, raises some fun concepts. The sort of things where in this current level of technology you'd almost need to supercool a room for a sweep, blast various RF/sound/etc and look for anything that even remotely warms up, to detect (1) whether something detected something worth recording for later as well as (2) something that might be on the right wavelength/etc to trigger a send.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
This isn’t uncommon, but it’s rare this info is shared in such detail publicly..possibly to make an example.
minimaxir•1h ago
Did OpenAI do a marketing bit in the middle of an espionage accusation?
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https://www.forth.news/lists/philapd/Cfs1w2A22JiL3fWSzA8Nx
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seydor•33m ago
"almost surely made in china"
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