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Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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Can't say they are wrong, after the latest backdoor, or let's say, undocumented functionality that leaks some data that was pushed in Claude Code few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754

That’s not what a backdoor is…

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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post #12

What Claude Code did is absolutely mindboggling tho, if Chinese harness did that probably POTUS would lose sleep.

Exaggerate much? If you think POTUS would lose sleep about a date format timezone marker, I don't know what to tell you.

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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post #6

i gonna ask: how can they still use claude? i thought all users in china are banned

There is a reason Singapore tops the rank on Claude usage

the government also actively promotes AI usage in work environments

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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i gonna ask: how can they still use claude? i thought all users in china are banned

Alibaba has engineers in Hongkong, Singapore, North America. It’s a global corporation

when i was in hongkong, chatgpt and gemini were disabled. Maybe this has changed though. When I was in China, the corporate vpn (zscaler) routed traffic through hk

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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post #11
post #5

Can't say they are wrong, after the latest backdoor, or let's say, undocumented functionality that leaks some data that was pushed in Claude Code few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754

That’s not what a backdoor is…

When a company can remotely push code without explicit user approval, and code that was hostile / almost malicious, it is a backdoor

Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

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Considering their massive distillation, if US companies stop publishing new models to the public, would China still be able to develop new open weight models?

Yes, 100%. GLM 5.2 is capable of RSI. It's too late to stop.
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