Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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kyokoL•about 3 hours ago

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message.

Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice.

A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata inside prompts. This is a serious breach of user trust.

StopTencent•about 2 hours ago

Good. All companies need protection from Chinese State Sponsored abuse.

jml78•19 minutes ago

Let me guess, you are 100% with the fact Anthropic trained all their models on our data. Trained it on copyrighted data.

At least the Chinese companies are paying Anthropic for the privilege of distilling their models.

Zambyte•39 minutes ago

Copying data without consent is only cool when Americans do it

chomp•about 2 hours ago

I don’t understand why this is a problem.

chews•about 2 hours ago

you are the perfect customer.

tartoran•about 2 hours ago

There's another discussion thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734373

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

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