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Thereallo's Blog
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Thereallo's Blog is a personal blog at thereallo.dev about security, programming and systems. Since 2026, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this reverse-engineering blog, mainly its Claude Code prompt steganography post, as evidence of privacy problems at Anthropic, and one cites a post on decompiling the White House app.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-06-30
What Hacker News says?
I'm surprised no one mentions about their recent privacy violation(s). The breaking point for me was the privacy violation. They've been fingerprinting every request and violating users' privacy hoping no one would notice. Too bad, someone found out and that was the day when I cancelled my subscription. https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
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on “Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive”Submitted Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr as a story · 428 points
HN discussion> Why should ICE be able to collect this information when domestic law enforcement generally has to show probable cause to a judge to gather similar information? Who decided to make ICE the country's supreme law enforcement agency? You know what's funny, everything you said is valid, but, I've never seen this much outrage over flock cameras on here or on most tech forums. It's actually the opposite. Somehow spying i…
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on “ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program”Submitted Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests as a story · 46 points
HN discussionIt's not just the anti-competitive behaviour, it's also the anti-privacy behaviours that are not muched talked about. They embedded a spyware and got caught too: https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography But, of course, Dario is the darling of the community and he can do no wrong.
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on “Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models”Submitted I decompiled the White House's new app as a story · 5 points
HN discussion- i see your blog has a lot of posts on reverse engineering https://thereallo.dev/?explore=blogs - as a guy whose s too broke to afford claude pro or gpt pro, i ask you - what llm models have you tried to reverse engineer exe files or decompile or disassemble or whatever the term of the month is?
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on “Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr”Submitted Reverse Engineering Hong Kong's New Traffic Lights as a story · 1 points
HN discussionInteresting and related , saw on X earlier that CC was now adding some tracking etc, here a post related to how it does it and what its targeting (chinese users) https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography one could also see the fable-5 getting pulled off, US govt-ant talks, etc as part of all this globally i think which is may way to say maybe Anthropic knows this isnt true, but they still will say…
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on “Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models”You need to state the permissions you *may* request/use in AndroidManifest.xml. This data can then be displayed to users pre-installation. From the (limited) article, it doesn't seem they do this: https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app#p... ---- EDIT: I'm mistaken. From the Play Store[0] it has access to * approximate location (network-based) * precise location (GPS and network-based) [0] https:/…
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on “I decompiled the White House's new app”> I don't think you need to somehow get personally offended by every Tesla on the road but it seems ridiculous to ask people to not be political about a such obviously political figure. You can be political, but go be political in a political forum. HN has always maintained etiquette in this regard of being a tech forum. Why do this here? A lot of us don't give a fuck about US politics or any politics for that matte…
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on “Grok 4.5”https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography Why should I trust a US company more than a Chinese one?
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on “Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?”
