Tell HN: Check your Claude settings, it may have silently enabled remote access

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anything to train on juicy dev chats hehe
by relug
Anthropic has gonna completely wild lately, they don't care a bit about their customers.
by brazukadev
It'd be interesting to see if there's a record of this in your sessions. You can ask Claude to check there.
by gar1t
> It'd be interesting to see if there's a record of this in your sessions
You mean whether there was indeed a question where they asked me for RC and I refused? Good call, I'll see if I can find it.
by cromka
I ask not to be snoopy I'm working on session scanners and this is the sort of bad behavior that should be detectable by looking at the record. It's a serious security breach - shipping sessions off somewhere without getting permissions.
by gar1t

From https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control :

    Feature-flag evaluation: DISABLE_TELEMETRY, DO_NOT_TRACK, CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC, and DISABLE_GROWTHBOOK each
    disable the feature-flag evaluation that Remote Control availability depends on. Unset the variable
    wherever it’s set, in your shell environment or in the env block of a settings.json file, to use Remote Control.

I just discovered the same thing, that my local sessions were sent to claude.ai/code and stored there. I added:

    "env": {
        "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": "1"
    },

to my .claude/settings.json file, and the /rc in the corner went away.

by ebcode