As a security professional I have unfortunately been on the unlucky side of AI: Anthropic permanently suspended my access to their services for an alleged violation of their usage policies* and OpenAI is automatically denying my access requests to their Trusted Access for Cyber allow-list (what they call ' Daybreak ') despite about a week of back-and-forth with their powerless support team.

So, I'm stuck with all doors closed on me. Threat actors have access to powerful models and me? A legitimate security professional? Not much other than having to pray that OpenAI doesn't flag my sessions. Time to get a little crafty!

* Long story short: I used Claude solely to create a script that imports some numbers from CSV files which got my account suspended after an hour (without possibility of appealing the decision with a human). That's it, creating a Python script to import a CSV file that has two columns (timestamp + numeric value) got me permanently banned.…