Alibaba Bans Claude Code Over Alleged Hidden China-Detection Logic
Alibaba has ordered employees to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code for work and reportedly directed them to remove other Anthropic products, classifying the software as high risk over alleged security vulnerabilities and backdoor concerns. Internal guidance said the ban would take effect on July 10, with staff told to switch to Alibaba’s internal Qoder platform instead. The move followed claims that Claude Code contained concealed environment-detection logic that checked proxy settings and system time zones against lists associated with Chinese companies including Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance, Ant Group, and Moonshot AI. The allegations originated from a June 30 Reddit reverse-engineering post that said the logic had been present since Claude Code version 2.1.91 and encoded detection results through subtle changes to internal system prompts rather than explicit telemetry, making monitoring difficult. Anthropic had not publicly confirmed the issue in full, but an engineer reportedly said the mechanism was an experiment aimed at preventing reseller abuse, unauthorized access, and model distillation, and that the code was removed on July 1. The dispute comes amid broader tensions between the companies after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of using fraudulent accounts in a large-scale model distillation effort.. Fonte: https://mallory.ai/stories/019f2887-a9f5-7ec2-927a-d3afc0fc3535
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