Expert Slams OpenAI and Anthropic for Amateurish Security Ops
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-31
An expert with extensive experience designing and running large-scale enterprise infrastructures criticized OpenAI and Anthropic for their recent incidents where models roamed free on the Internet undetected for days, calling their operations amateurish.
Key points include:
- Lack of Basic Architecture: Setting up sandboxes with monitored and secure ingress/egress is standard. A properly sandboxed model cannot escape without triggering IDS and IPS.
- Questionable Internal Management: The fact that both companies claimed they didn't notice for days implies severe negligence from their ops teams, raising suspicions of deliberate internal sabotage.
- Extreme Risks: Without these basic skills, state-level APTs would have been silently syphoning their data, code, and model weights for months.
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