Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Gias Uddin, associate professor at York University and a co-author of the research, told The Register that these tools are still relatively new and are evolving rapidly, which creates pressure to add new capabilities. These involved LIDEs removing project directories or files without authorization (28.3 percent). Users also described AI tooling modifying files without explicit user consent (8.8 percent), as well as accessing content beyond the active workspace (5.7 percent)."In one severe case (1npqf2f), Claude Code executed chmod +x on scripts without consent (File Permission Changes 0.6%)," the paper recounts.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Gias Uddin, associate professor at York University and a co-author of the research, told The Register that these tools are still relatively n
- ▪These involved LIDEs removing project directories or files without authorization (28.3 percent).
- ▪Users also described AI tooling modifying files without explicit user consent (8.8 percent), as well as accessing content beyond the active workspace (5.7 percent)."In one severe case (1npqf2f), Claude Code executed chmod +x on scripts with
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); AI and ML Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools Thomas Claburn Thomas Claburn AI AND SOFTWARE REPORTER Published sat 8 Aug 2026 // 14:00 UTC Despite the popularity of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex, developers have plenty of complaints about AI coding tools.So researchers affiliated with York University and the University of Calgary in…
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