The One-Way Door: How Samsung Walked Its Source Code Through a Boundary That Only Opens Once
Within roughly three weeks of letting its semiconductor engineers use ChatGPT, Samsung suffered three separate leaks of crown-jewel intellectual property into an external system that learns from what it is given. Source code, defect-detection logic, and a recorded internal meeting. The most technically capable company on earth then did the one thing that revealed how bad the situation was. It did not try to recover the data. It could not. It banned the tool. This is the forensic anatomy of a governance failure whose defining feature is that, by the time anyone noticed, every remedy except prohibition had already expired.