Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says

12 comments

• eunos 6 minutes ago

  What Claude Code did is absolutely mindboggling tho, if Chinese harness did that probably POTUS would lose sleep.

• rvz 5 minutes ago

  Another reason to use open source coding agents and local language models.

  Claude Code is neither and it is literally info stealing malware.

• rvnx 25 minutes ago

  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

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  dgellow 8 minutes ago

  That’s not what a backdoor is…

• yanhangyhy an hour ago

  i gonna ask: how can they still use claude? i thought all users in china are banned

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  dgellow 12 minutes ago

  Alibaba has engineers in Hongkong, Singapore, North America. It’s a global corporation

  bravetraveler 21 minutes ago

  Same way every ban is evaded, smurfing

  _flux 17 minutes ago

  Does Alibaba only have developers in the China?

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  one33seven 8 minutes ago

  Did china invent VPNs yet?

  playnuu9 23 minutes ago

  There is a reason Singapore tops the rank on Claude usage

  josh-wrale 38 minutes ago

  Cc can be used with non Anthropic models.

  re-thc 36 minutes ago

  > how can they still use claude?

  Workarounds aside, it says Claude Code not Claude.

  i.e. they are using the CLI running any model. You can for instance run GLM with it.