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For the sake of argument what would happen if she had kept the diary locally and claude code scanned the file?

What would happen if it had scanned a file it didn’t have permission to look at and found this threat?

I honestly don’t know how I feel about this. On the one hand if you’re using claude as a diary you have no expectation of privacy and she was talking about committing a very serious crime.

This still makes me feel queasy though.

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Both of those scenarios would demonstrate even more commitment to safety so I imagine they’d be at least as likely to happen as this, if not more.

> For the sake of argument what would happen if she had kept the diary locally and claude code scanned the file?

For the sake of even more argument, imagine if she was writing her thoughts with a pencil, on a good old fashioned paper diary, and she had a phone nearby and the phone took a picture of her diary, OCR'd the words, and reported it to the police?

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