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Controversy erupts as Claude Code is accused of secretly fingerprinting China-linked custom proxy routes through invisible prompt formatting changes, raising serious trust and auditability concerns for AI agents.
Anthropic precisely identifies requests from Claude Code that use third-party providers (proxy stations) by modifying the date format in the system prompt and comparing it with their own logs, thereby batch-banning proxy station IPs and accounts. This technique requires no network upload activity and can even detect proxy usage within enterprise intranet environments.