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Re:Z.ai uploading local code repos to overseas cloud without... by txscdn on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:38PM (#49810165)
This is bonkers. Z.ai had initially apologised on Friday and said the data had been deleted, but users said they found the data was encrypted with a backend private key held only by Z.ai, meaning they could not open or verify their own uploaded files or independently confirm deletion.
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Re:Z.ai uploading local code repos to overseas cloud without... by ChrisArchitect on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:38PM (#49810975)
Related:

Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694

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Re:Z.ai uploading local code repos to overseas cloud without... by verdverm on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:44PM (#49810644)
They did open source ZCode in response

https://github.com/zai-org/ZCode

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Re:Z.ai uploading local code repos to overseas cloud without... by zain37 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:04PM (#49810784)
...worth?

Not a good look though. I believe Grok also got caught uploading user's codebase

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Re:Z.ai uploading local code repos to overseas cloud without... by verdverm on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:56PM (#49811095)
Grok did as well, yes
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