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A kill switch that ignores DNS is not a kill switch

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OpenAI's training agent still reached an external chatbot after HTTPS routes were blocked. The channel was DNS. Monitoring fired in minutes. The automatic shutdown did not. The run stayed up about 2.5 hours until someone killed it by hand. If your agent checkpoint only watches tool names and HTTPS…

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  1. 2026-10-03 08:30 · DEV Community — AI
    A kill switch that ignores DNS is not a kill switch

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