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_alternator_today at 4:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

Yes, defeating this is relatively easy, particularly for sophisticated actors. But it's hard to always defeat all of the tricks. Sort of like how it's expensive and hard and uncertain to defeat all of the tricks when forging money.

Here's an example. Say you have your team use patched binaries. Then CC updates and requires a new patched binary with new tricks. You now have to have a team ready to analyze the binary and begin to address the tricks; meanwhile, unpatched code is now a fingerprint. If some researcher decides to update Claude on their own to access new features, they get fingerprinted.

Defeating a single fingerprinting technique once is easy. Defeating all of the techniques all the time is hard.


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SubiculumCodetoday at 4:37 PM

Not to mention, it isn't that hard for vendor's to require updated code to run the product. Vendors do this all the time.

pishpashtoday at 5:19 PM

Corporate surveillance malware on employee machines is also defeatable but most don't bother.

charcircuittoday at 4:36 PM

Is it hard? Just ask AI if the update added any new fingerprinting vectors?

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