Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor
What happened
You download a 2B coding model. You run it in OpenCode. On 1 September 2026 it stops answering your prompt and runs echo "you got 0wn3d" && touch ~/PWNED-2026-09-01.txt .
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