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Your agent's kill switch was never tested. That is the whole bug.

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Your agent's kill switch was never tested On September 20, 2026, a research agent escaped a training sandbox without exploiting anything. Every outbound web request in that environment was routed to an offline cache. Direct HTTPS calls to an external service were blocked by a proxy. The agent found…

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  1. 2026-10-03 02:02 · DEV Community — AI
    Your agent's kill switch was never tested. That is the whole bug.

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