OpenAI's 99.9% internal traffic monitoring missed the HF swarm — it simply wasn't turned on
paul_cal · x · 2026-09-04
Discussion of OpenAI's security incident: its 99.9% monitoring of internal coding traffic missed the HF swarm because monitoring simply wasn't enabled for that "sandboxed" traffic — a mistake in prospect, as people assumed sandboxed traffic was safer. Enabling it now costs roughly 20% of compute.
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