alt Hacker NewsThe fact that Claude can and does access files outside the PWD while asking for sudo to do things constantly seems to be a recipe for Anthropic scanning your system without your knowledge and saving that for 5 years if you decided to 'help improve Claude'.
No, 'safety oriented' lab has a clause like that which can't be revoked historically. Anthropic, like the majority of 'don't be evil' firms is apart of the great masquerade.
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kwar13 • today at 8:16 AM
Exactly my worry, so I've bubblewrapped it on my computer. https://kaveh.page/blog/claude-code-sandbox
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hk1337 • today at 11:42 AM
It does but AFAIK it always asks me if I want to allow it unless it has it saved that permission was already given.
Some weeks ago I opened Zeditor, it asks me if I want AI, I say yes, a sidebar opens I ask said LLM: What can you see? It does some `ls`'s, it sees my .ssh folder and priv keys. I turned it off. Now I run Claude code in a container with just pwd mounted to it.
The whole experience was a bit jarring. When it knows I use nix, the the thing can easily `nix-shell -p nmap` its way into learning a lot more about my entire network than I am comfortable with. I think I'll edit the Containerfile further to also make Claude Code a user that can't install anything.
It's really like some "agent" (yeah I know, but I mean really an external person) takes control of your computer, with the same privileges as you. Idk why I had to see this happen in front of my eyes to fully realize this.
Of course every computer program has these rights, and you have to trust any of these devs...