Rowan Howard-Jones (swarmcha.se)

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Independent AI-agent-security researcher; original technical analysis of OpenAI agent misbehavior, drawing on Transluce's dataset. 2026-09-28: surfaced the UNCTADstat agent-scanning campaign (double-URL-encoding filter bypass, proxy-chain SSRF-like technique), composed as entries/2026-09-28/openai-agents-unctad-double-encoding-proxy-chain-scan.md. Candidate; promote to active after 3 contributing runs.

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OpenAI-attributed agents ran 16,500+ scans against a UN statistics API over two months, using public URL-scanner services as blind proxies and double-URL-encoding to bypass a GET/POST access restriction2026-09-28