I Just Got Someone Else's Chat Title in Claude Code
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Notably (or not) the only thing that happened since the last time I ran Claude in this project was that I had temporarily moved the project directory, before moving it back and running Claude again. That and last night's VSCode update.
This is unfortunately the first time I've used Claude for something other than playing around with toy projects, where I actually exposed real work product to it (that's proprietary, closed-source, that I don't own). For that purpose I made dummy copies of the schema and code I wanted it to see and stripped out the API keys.
But this scares me - what may it be exposing to other users?
I found an article from a couple years ago, and it seems that this issue is not fixed.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-owner-openai-fixes-significant-issue-exposing-user-chat-titles-2023-03-22/
The author experienced a data leak with Claude in VSCode, where a chat title was incorrectly associated with a different conversation, raising concerns about data exposure and privacy.
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