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…
Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
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#12What Claude Code did is absolutely mindboggling tho, if Chinese harness did that probably POTUS would lose sleep.
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#13Another reason to use open source coding agents and local language models.
Claude Code is neither and it is literally info stealing malware.
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#14What 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.
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#15Re: Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
#16i 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
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#17Considering their massive distillation, if US companies stop publishing new models to the public, would China still be able to develop new open weight models?
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#19Can'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
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#20Considering 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.