Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.
A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone.
Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for the South China Morning Post. The archive held a snapshot of a commercial project he was working on, including its Git history.
He could not open his own file
This is the detail that separates the incident from an ordinary privacy complaint. Ferstar said the archive could not be decrypted by him or by the ZCode client, because the private key sits on Z.ai’s back end.
The upload was on by default and there was no button to turn it off, he said. Another blogger, Feng Ruohang, wrote on Friday that he had seen at least three files uploaded.
Alibaba, which...
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