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An open weights model from 2025 with a pentest harness could already escape a sandbox and hack most networks; the surprise says more about the sandbox than the model.

Drawn from what Thomas Ptacek said

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    Thomas Ptacek 22 Jul 2026

    I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you assume OpenAI has sounder sandboxes.

    @tqbf on Xx.com

First recorded here 22 Jul 2026 · How quotes work

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