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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
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[-] refalo@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago

I can't believe how many decades we got out of just letting all apps have full access to $HOME. In $current_year it's our own fault if we don't properly isolate our applications I guess. Android does a pretty good job of it IMO although cross-app intents probably need more protection.

this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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