OpenAI bans user's 4-year-old account after using Codex for reverse engineering
oran_ge · x · 2026-10-13
- A user says OpenAI banned their account—registered in 2022 and used for nearly four years—after they tried using Codex to reverse-engineer a popular GitHub project.
- The case suggests OpenAI is actively enforcing restrictions on reverse-engineering tasks with Codex, and such workflows may now trigger account bans.
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