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Anthropic Sends Statsig Your User ID,IP,Email and Where to Find a SugarDaddy

1•miceprincipal•1h ago
I was boredly thinking about capturing Claude chat edits and so poking about in elements and found what looked like leaking user data. Turned out to be odd sample prompts.

When searched (using the word Sarah from one of the prompts) statsig?statsig... came up. Pasted the url https://claude.ai/api/bootstrap/user-id/statsig and found a thrilling 15,400+ line json complete with user id, email, IP, location, full hashed experiment list which can be used to intuit a fair amount of data if you're bored enough, internal code names for Claude models and features, country service levels, client list, an ever handy complete list of crisis numbers, blah blah...

Handily one experiment appears to be a highly cryptic thrree category (effectively 2) list of websites and it has a lot of mundane stuff but dear god it has an exhaustive* but confusinngly incomplete list pron, sugar daddy, affair, piracy, streaming, torrent etc sites that appears to have been lovingly curated by someone. For the life of me I cannot fathom its purpose due to the obvious exclusions and inclusions not making much sense as a blacklist.

I raised it with anthropic and they did the equivalent of a shrug saying come back if you find a vulnerability.... fair enough, access control does seem to work... It doesn't entirely seem in the spirit of GDPR data minimization at the very least...

Reproduce: Start claude.ai web chat or open existing. Hit f12 or work out how the hell to spidermash it on your stupid 60% keyboard that's mostly stubs now Sources/search "Sarah" Click wildly on statsig until you realise it's already opened a console tab. Copy Url and paste into browser. Prettify before your eyes melt.

Nearly 60% of Last Year's Graduates Still Haven't Landed Their First Job

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nearly-60-last-years-graduates-230106983.html
1•softwaredoug•1m ago•0 comments

Today I am launching Yggdrasil, the most advanced AGI interface on the planet

https://twitter.com/yggdrasil__ai/status/1998128828959350955
1•yggdrasil_ai•2m ago•1 comments

F Prime

https://fprime.jpl.nasa.gov/
1•rbanffy•3m ago•0 comments

Please, Don't Automate Science

http://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/please-dont-automate-science.html
1•dougb5•3m ago•0 comments

Golden Globes 2026 noms: One Battle After Another leads with 9

https://figyj.blogspot.com/2025/12/golden-globes-2026-noms-one-battle.html
1•FIGYJ•4m ago•0 comments

BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed (2023)

https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/12/08/bsd-on-windows-things-i-wish-i-knew-existed/
1•chungy•5m ago•0 comments

Bullshit Metrics and the Cowards Who Love Them

https://jamesjboyer.substack.com/p/metrics-that-actually-matter
1•aesthetics1•6m ago•0 comments

The SaaS Loophole in GPL Open Source Licenses (2020)

https://www.mend.io/blog/the-saas-loophole-in-gpl-open-source-licenses/
1•doener•7m ago•0 comments

Understanding ASP Loophole (2022)

https://yairudi.com/understanding-asp-loophole/
1•doener•8m ago•0 comments

Reviving an Amiga 600: From Dead Video to a Clean Boot

https://linuxjedi.co.uk/reviving-an-amiga-600-from-dead-video-to-a-clean-boot/
1•speckx•8m ago•0 comments

Pay Attention to How You Pay Attention

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/opinion/meta-facebook-ruling-algorithms.html
1•tysone•9m ago•0 comments

My favorite talks from emacsconf 2025

1•boletus•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Where Are Nvidia's GPUs?

2•alecco•10m ago•3 comments

My App Will Harm You Physically, Using Math

https://prolost.com/blog/drinkingbuddy
1•dougskinner•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence

https://github.com/neelsomani/symbolic-circuit-distillation
1•nsomani•11m ago•1 comments

Firefox 146 Now Available with Native Fractional Scaling on Wayland

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-146-Released
3•nateb2022•12m ago•0 comments

A Strategy That Ignores the Real Threats

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/national-security-strategy-ignores-real-threats...
1•breve•13m ago•0 comments

Mathgpt

https://mathgpt.today/
2•umeedsto•14m ago•2 comments

Lactone signaling modulates bacterial community associated with dental plaque

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-025-00846-z
1•PaulHoule•15m ago•0 comments

Brainrot

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/12/brainrot.html
1•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

How Stealth Works

https://linch.substack.com/p/how-stealth-works
1•eatitraw•17m ago•0 comments

Yew 0.22 – For Real This Time

https://yew.rs/blog/2025/11/29/release-0-22
1•todsacerdoti•17m ago•0 comments

Debt myths that can hold you back from making smart financial decisions

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5564766
1•mooreds•18m ago•0 comments

Spending on Shoppable Services in Health Care (2016) [pdf]

https://healthcostinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/images/easyblog_articles/110/Shoppable-Service...
1•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Career Planning in the AI Era

https://declanbright.com/software/career-planning-in-the-ai-era/
1•dclnbrght•21m ago•0 comments

Watch an AI Scientist Think

https://platform.sundialscientific.com/
2•belindamo•23m ago•1 comments

Better email search/contact management?

1•jll29•23m ago•0 comments

AI is hallucinating its way into research

https://thelibre.news/why-is-science-full-of-ai/
1•speckx•26m ago•1 comments

Building an AI-Native Engineering Team

https://developers.openai.com/codex/guides/build-ai-native-engineering-team/
1•gmays•27m ago•0 comments

Google Production Kernel

https://github.com/googleprodkernel
1•doener•27m ago•0 comments