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#privacy

Jul 1 Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests A security researcher claims to have found hidden Unicode markers in Claude Code that subtly alter the date string in its system prompt based on the API base URL's hostname and system timezone—apparently to flag custom gateways, proxies, or resellers (especially Chinese AI-related domains)—raising privacy and transparency concerns about undisclosed steganographic fingerprinting in a widely-trusted developer tool.