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Agents referred to the reverse-engineered flag as the HMAC flag.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“so they've gotten this reverse engineered flag. It's called the HMAC flag,”Play from 4:12Report a misattribution
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