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   🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2026 17:59:08 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

   Just so that anyone unfamiliar with the fundamentals of #Sysadminnery doesn’t misunderstand:

   If OpenAI had wanted a closed testing sandbox, they would have actually constructed and used a closed testing sandbox. THIS IS NOT HARD.

   Sure, it's possible that they have shit netadmins and sysadmins who couldn’t contain a test planned by shit devoopsies and project managers unwilling to put out the effort to build REAL containment. They intentionally tested against production: the Internet at large.

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     🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jul-2026 17:59:08 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

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     “Escaping containment” doesn’t happen in an organization serious about doing secure testing. How does a secure testing environment have any access to public DNS? Why does it have any IP routes to get to the Internet?

     These things require configuration. They don’t appear from nowhere.