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A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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Nevo was in Unit 8200 for years. Companies started by Unit 8200 members always have mysterious exploits like the vibe coding Wix exploit. So either it was a deliberate exfiltration channel for e.g. getting the entire model or they were in on the marketing stunt. The Effective Altruism stuff is always a smoke screen.

Literally said this below, 2 comments flagged and 1 in the neg. Its really sad that we are not allowed to point out the obvious common element here. Its not that surprising that ex Israel intelligence would want to control AI and that 3 companies headed by pro Israel CEO's would support them.

Use Lobsters instead. You’ll get flagged, downvoted and dang will shit on your desk.

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#132

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Literally said this below, 2 comments flagged and 1 in the neg. Its really sad that we are not allowed to point out the obvious common element here. Its not that surprising that ex Israel intelligence would want to control AI and that 3 companies headed by pro Israel CEO's would support them.

Use Lobsters instead. You’ll get flagged, downvoted and dang will shit on your desk.

Invite? email on profile.

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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Literally said this below, 2 comments flagged and 1 in the neg. Its really sad that we are not allowed to point out the obvious common element here. Its not that surprising that ex Israel intelligence would want to control AI and that 3 companies headed by pro Israel CEO's would support them.

We really need a better board for talking about this stuff on.

fwiw HN has some involvement of those interested in speaking hard truths about israeli power dynamics: https://www.timesofisrael.com/snippy-twitter-exchange-expose...

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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> Would it be an affirmative defense if we had a defendant who said [...] Maybe replace it with playing a sort of FPS game then learning you were, in fact, directing a real drone/robot.

I think you just recapitulated the plot of Ender's Game.

Also a subplot in Arrested Development and the movie Toys.

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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honestly, the hacking incidents have caused a lot more interest and media attention than the math stuff IMO.

Sure, interest like an incoming congressional investigation: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/openai-hugging-face-senate-... And on this website, the math stuff is getting more clicks: - Navier Stokes - Tristan Buckmaster (2050 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915 - HuggingFace incident discussion (1632 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

Investigation which could ideally lead to regulatory capture and the banning of open weights, thus ensuring Anthropic’s revenue.

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

#137

The Irregular post mortem comes down to lack of basic security controls "Ultimately, most of the issues we’ve discovered were due to internet access controls." That seems so incredibly basic and common sense that you would test and monitor for that type of outbound access. It is baffling that a security lab missed that. https://www.irregular.com/research/addressing-recent-inciden...

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Is it really that impossible to believe that these might be real? I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone, but "they committed a bunch of felonies and then publicly admitted to them in order to look good" just makes 0 sense. Where are these mythical people who admire companies more when they commit felonies? I haven't seen them…

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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post #128

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honestly, the hacking incidents have caused a lot more interest and media attention than the math stuff IMO.

Sure, interest like an incoming congressional investigation: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/10/openai-hugging-face-senate-... And on this website, the math stuff is getting more clicks: - Navier Stokes - Tristan Buckmaster (2050 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605915 - HuggingFace incident discussion (1632 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

interesting.

> Sure, interest like an incoming congressional investigation

I feel like that's exactly what they wanted tho.

they'll go on and talk about how dangerous AI and the models are and why they should be regulated and given licenses to operate such models and others should be walled off

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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Maybe because the headline is misleading? (because there's no connection to the Hugging Face attack) That said, it's the second day and it's still on the front page.

Which part of the headline is misleading? It is factually correct that Irregular was involved in incidents with all three AI labs. It must have been reinstated because it was off the front page for a full day and suddenly back up in the last hour.

It is strongly misleading because it says "behind hacking scandals" (which suggests behind all of them in general) not "behind some of the hacking scandals". Considering that by far the most important one, the Hugging Face hack, has no Irregular involvement, the headline is deceptive.

Re: A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

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Is it really that impossible to believe that these might be real? I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone, but "they committed a bunch of felonies and then publicly admitted to them in order to look good " just makes 0 sense. Where are these mythical people who admire companies more when they commit felonies? I haven't seen them…

That's a straw man. The theory is that they committed felonies in order to get the regulator to move in the manner they'd like.

Also one can look bad to the general public while also appearing technically excellent. When a significant fraction already vaguely dislike you that could be quite an attractive proposition.

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