Oh Claude, why you do me this way?
The fact that people give Claude access to their secrets is a big liability in the first place.
Even Claude itself warns you about it. I did shared a snippet of code with API keys in it by mistake, I got a huge warning telling me that I should consider these compromise and change them immediately.
So this is a pretty bad headline; it isn’t Claude Code sharing the secrets, it’s the user syncing their command history.
I’m sad we can’t get claude to share what it’s seen.
When a user chooses the “Yes, and don’t ask again” option to approve running a command, that choice gets stored as part of a rule in the local “.claude/settings.local.json” file on the user’s computer.
Saving privileged credentials in the clear in a config file? I think I can take credit for Claude doing that as this. Claude was clearly trained on my StackOverflow posts from 15 years ago.
Thank you for your critically important contribution.
The irony is spectacular: a coding assistant designed to automate development also automates the creation of security liabilities. And Anthropic’s response seems to be more automation. Perhaps the next AI agent can monitor the first AI agent while a third one explains to management why the database credentials are now public.
Your comment instantly made my brain jump to https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/
How do I know if they are both down or if it’s my internet?
Got you covered fam. https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/
Fuzz buster buster buster
One is ultimately responsible for one’s output.
This is my point with AI. The risk is not that it will become something new, it’s that it will become like us.
Why they’re blaming the tool instead of the user?
It’s the vibe coder’s fault if they don’t even watch the files edited in a commit.
Not only they approve a commit without reading the code, but they approve without watching the list of edited files in a commit? They don’t use vs code or something that shows a diff? Just type in a box and let the algorithm have full control on the commits, blindly?
But I was told we don’t need developers anymore because Claude can do everything.
