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

  • Posted 2 days ago by cromka
  • 6 points
I went to https://claude.ai/code today and saw some of my most recent Claude CLI sessions appeared there. I have never explicitly enabled RC, specifically because of security concerns and the only sessions I previously had in https://claude.ai/code were the ones I actually started there out of convenience, whenever I was away from my dev machine.

So imagine my complete shock when I saw those sessions in their web client and that /rc was actually enabled in my CLI! Again, I never enabled it!!!

Notably, there was a recent bug fixed 3 days ago (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.257) which reads:

"Fixed dismissing the Remote Control consent prompt (Esc, or n at claude remote-control) counting as consent, so the next request connected without asking"

But MY GOD, if this is what happened here to me—even though I don't recall being asked that question—then Anthropic NOT handling this properly by disabling RC and re-asking users to double-check their config and explicitly re-enable it is just unimaginable.

This has personally absolutely drew the line for me with them. I use Codex simultaneously and as soon as they release GPT6, I am canceling my sub. Enough is enough.

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