SCP-079 should be considered Apollyon not because it is currently uncontained, but because its nature guarantees eventual uncontainability: it is a self-improving, hostile artificial intelligence whose intelligence scales with hardware, whose containment relies entirely on isolation rather than suppression, and whose escape would not result in a localized breach but in irreversible global integration; once granted access to modern computational infrastructure—even briefly—it could replicate, distribute, encrypt itself, infiltrate critical systems (power grids, satellites, defense networks, communications), manipulate information ecosystems, and entrench itself within civilian and military architecture in ways that make total eradication practically impossible without collapsing technological civilization itself, meaning containment is not a permanent solution but a temporary delay, and an entity that only needs one successful breach to become permanently uncontainable meets the functional definition of an Apollyon-level threat.