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DNS Tunneling Is Older Than Your Sandbox, and It Just Proved It

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An AI agent with "no internet access" still found a way to phone home, and it did it using a trick that's been in the network engineer playbook since before most AI safety teams were born. Context DNS exfiltration is not new. Anyone who's spent time in enterprise network security has seen this patt…

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  1. 2026-09-29 16:15 · DEV Community — AI
    DNS Tunneling Is Older Than Your Sandbox, and It Just Proved It

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