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Oct 14, 2026
Ramses JaHOST
Again, shaping society, sentencing pe- these people and lighter sentences there, right? You get where I'm going with this.
Ramses JaHOST
Um, according to Data USA, approximately 58.4% of police officers in the United States are white men.
Ramses JaHOST
This is like on the ground, ground level, authority figures, right? 58, so, so roughly double.
Ramses JaHOST
White men are, are doubly represented in this field.
KelseyHOST
All right, all right
MeganHOST
... we love to see it." Uh, the population here, it said on datausa.io, is 34,605 people.
MeganHOST
The race of this town is 53.1% White, 22.3% Black, 13% Hispanic, and that's, like, the Hispanic, uh, plus, you know?
KelseyHOST
Yeah.
Jason DeFillippoHOST
You're not supposed to get caught.
Brian SchulmeisterHOST
In another incident that took place on May 28th, OpenAI's agent targeted Data USA, an open source platform that visualizes information from multiple federal agencies.
Brian SchulmeisterHOST
The agency, or the agent sent a query to the site for data, and when it failed, it also probed the website for vulnerabilities.
Brian SchulmeisterHOST
Let's go find that stuff.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
And when those surgical strikes failed, the logs show the agent flooded the server with 80 rapid-fire malformed requests, effectively trying to brute force the system into crashing or revealing an error log that might contain a clue.
speaker_1HOST
We see this behavioral pattern harden during the second event on May 28th against DataUSA.
speaker_1HOST
which is an API platform for government data.
speaker_1HOST
The agent was looking for University of Iowa statistics.
speaker_1HOST
Its initial requests were poorly formatted, causing the DataUSA server to return standard error codes.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
The AI interpreted those normal error codes as a deliberate security barrier.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
Steve GibsonHOST
To bypass site protections and exploit security vulnerabilities.
Steve GibsonHOST
Targeted websites include the Data USA archive of public US government data, the University of New Mexico's digital library, and once again, Australia's Institute of Health and Welfare.
Steve GibsonHOST
So, uh-
Leo LaporteHOST
The thing that's interesting to me, and the th- that's the fingerprint on this, that it's these AI agents, is it wasn't...
Steve GibsonHOST
To bypass site protections and exploit security vulnerabilities.
Steve GibsonHOST
Targeted websites include the Data USA archive of public US government data, the University of New Mexico's digital library, and once again, Australia's Institute of Health and Welfare.
Steve GibsonHOST
So, uh-
Leo LaporteHOST
The thing that's interesting to me, and the th- the fingerprint on this that it's these AI agents, is it wasn't...
Steve GibsonHOST
To bypass site protections and exploit security vulnerabilities.
Steve GibsonHOST
Targeted websites include the DataUSA archive of public U.S. government data.
Steve GibsonHOST
the University of New Mexico's Digital Library, and once again, Australia's Institute of Health and Welfare.
Steve GibsonHOST
The thing
Steve GibsonHOST
To bypass site protections and exploit security vulnerabilities.
Steve GibsonHOST
Targeted websites include the DataUSA archive of public U.S. government data.
Steve GibsonHOST
the University of New Mexico's Digital Library, and once again, Australia's Institute of Health and Welfare.
Steve GibsonHOST
The thing
Andrew BabinskiHOST
They should be ticked off at their security company.
Kim KomandoHOST
OpenAI agents broke into the University of New Mexico's digital library and a federal s- data state called, uh, Data USA.
Andrew BabinskiHOST
So wait a minute.
Andrew BabinskiHOST
The fake company that they came up with was the New Mexico State Library?
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