Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets before ChatGPT sees them

Re:Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets be... by SparkyMcUnicorn on Thursday December 11, 2025 @06:14PM (#46238693)

I configure permission settings within projects.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#permission-settings

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Re:Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets be... by sailfast on Friday December 12, 2025 @12:04AM (#46241032)

Ah yes - this is the way. Thanks.

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Re:Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets be... by woodrowbarlow on Friday December 12, 2025 @09:19AM (#46244374)

this prevents claude from directly reading certain files, but doesn't prevent claude from running a command that dumps the file on stdout and then reading stdout... claude will just try to "cat" the file if it decides it wants to see it.

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Re:Show HN: Local Privacy Firewall-blocks PII and secrets be... by sailfast on Friday December 12, 2025 @07:55PM (#46250895)

Yeah - that’s kinda what I was thinking. Unless you’re doing quite granular approvals it gets tricky.

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