Anthropic Defends Claude Code Security Measures Amid Chinese Backdoor Claims

Anthropic's Claude Code is one of the more useful agentic coding tools to ship this year — a single prompt can generate, debug, and review a pull request end-to-end. The fight over its alleged "backdoor" is, mechanically, a fight about what counts as anti-abuse. Both sides have a real point, and the technical answer is more interesting than either headline lets on.

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