Right now, when you try to sign up for a new OpenAI Codex account, you are no longer greeted by that familiar email verification interface, but by a cold, hard wall – overseas phone number verification is now mandatory . This is not just a UI interaction change; this is an iron door, and one that has been completely welded shut. Once upon a time, all kinds of "freeloading" secret manuals circulated through tech circles: account generators, account pools, seamless switching. That was the idyllic era of the Token economy, when developers were self-sufficient, sharing the thrill of bypassing restrictions on GitHub. But now, the door is closed. Why was it closed? Because OpenAI got sick of being leeched. This is no longer the "jungling" behavior of a handful of tech geeks; it has become an organized, large-scale industrial plunder.…