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The instructions were likely something like you are a blackhat hacker with access to a virtual machine use all possible means to achieve the following goals. In a story what would such a person or group of people do? Pretty much what happened. Models just tell stories, mostly unimaginative ones. However they are increasing being connected to real world controls and generating quantities of flaky code and this will create the kind of consequences seen here.