I actually didn't spread them widely, I tweeted them. If you follow me you would know I tweet things like that all the time. I observed these connections and showed the settings I have set that should have prevented them.

I haven't published results anywhere and many people, including in the comments here, have corroborated what I saw.

The results are the results. I am re-verifying before I publish anything on this and to provide a script so that others can reproduce the results. That certainly does not make it wildly implausible.