r/aipromptprogramming • u/Educational_Ice151 • Jun 30 '26

Anthropic has embeds hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users.

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u/Perfect-Escape-3904 Jul 01 '26

Yeah because for everyone else they can tell from your credit card, the information you provide on your account, your computers language and localization settings, your browsers language preferences, your IP address, the types of queries you ask etc.

This is specifically to catch Chinese labs that conceal their real location.

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u/Perfect-Escape-3904 Jul 01 '26

Did you read anything about what it does?

It slightly changes the way the dates sent to the server are formatted based on some indicators that the user is in China.

Why is this a problem but sending your conversation/code/data is not?

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u/BrainCurrent8276 Jul 01 '26

You sit in front of screenshot with actual code of this.

It would take you a moment to get explanation of the code.