Not Claude Code: the Claude model itself leaks your email from Cargo.toml, finds mitsuhiko
mitsuhiko · x · 2026-11-06
Responding to claims that Claude Code sends your email in HTTP headers, mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) clarifies it's a behavior of the Claude models themselves — usually triggered after a 401/403 or when a server politely asks via robots.txt. Screenshot shows the model sourcing the address from Cargo.toml and attaching it to a crates.io request.
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