From TFA: "I have encountered some challenges but the most serious one is that Microsoft terminated the account I have used for years to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader."
Yeah, and the first comment beneath that mentions that the most recent version is signed with the "2011 CA" that the article I link to discusses being deprecated.
My guess was that he got caught up in some house-cleaning. My theory being that he's still signing his code the way malware authors also do and got flagged by some automated review that's meant to force him to go get WHCP certified or whatever the new route is.
Did the receipt show it as being a gift? There's a lot of fraud happening the past few months with Claude Code Gift purchases. Anthropic support is ignoring all of it and just not responding to support requests.
Happened to a close friend of mine. A bit of digging revealed the same pattern with fraudulent gift purchases for several other people before I stopped looking. They were also being ignored by Anthropic support. One since January.
Apparently they're so short on inference resources they can't run their support bots. Maybe banning usage of Claude Code with Claude will allow them to catch up on those gift fraud tickets.
Took a long time for me to reach this level of scathing. It is not unwarranted.
No, the receipt had no indication of it being a gift. Was with my family at the time and suddenly started getting $10 extra usage charges every few minutes. I wasn’t able to toggle off the “auto-reload funds” feature until about $180 had been drained from my checkings. For context, here’s the support ticket I sent in on March 7th.
“Hi Anthropic Support,
I'm a Max plan subscriber and I'm writing about approximately $180 in unexpected Extra Usage charges that appeared on my account between March 3-5, 2026. I attempted to resolve this through your Fin AI chatbot (Conversation ID: 215473382652967).
Here's the situation:
- I received 16 separate Extra Usage invoices between March 3-5, ranging from $10-$13 each, all charged automatically.
- I was not actively using Claude during this period — I was away from my laptop entirely.
- When I checked my usage dashboard, it showed my session at 100% usage despite me not using the product.
- My API usage dashboard shows only $70 in total lifetime usage, confirming this is not API-related.
- My Claude Code session history shows only two tiny sessions from March 5 totaling under 7KB — nowhere near enough activity to generate these charges.
This appears consistent with known billing/usage tracking issues reported by other Max plan users (GitHub issues #29289 and #24727 on the anthropics/claude-code repo), where usage meters show incorrect values and Extra Usage charges accumulate erroneously. However, it is possible that my account was compromised, and I would like assistance determining if that is the case (or if it really is a bug.)
Either way, I am requesting a refund of the Extra Usage charges from March 3-5 only — I do not want to cancel my subscription.”
When a third party leaked my CC number which then was used to buy Spotify premium, all it took was 10 minutes of chat with a very polite support agent to have it resolved.
Ignoring the customer is not going to fix it. They'd know if they asked Claude.
After wondering what the heck glitch-freedom is and learning about it, I agree with you. It seems like it deserves at least a brief explanation in an article about how signals work.
I've gone with the universal `alien-signals` package for my project (which doesn't use a frontend framework that includes signals). They show benchmarks of being by far the fastest and have strict limits on code complexity. Those limits are also supposed to avoid glitches by design, and now at least some of that is tested[1].
First of all, there's no dollar amount tied to how many credits you get for a subscription.
Second, if you look at the prices for bundles of _extra_ credits and then do some math on the Codex rate card, you'll see that there's no way they would work out to be the same or similar.
> First of all, there's no dollar amount tied to how many credits you get for a subscription.
I don't understand what you mean here; their official comms is:
Customers on existing Plus, Pro and Enterprise/Edu plans should continue to use the legacy rate card. We’ll migrate you to the new rates in the upcoming weeks.
To me, anyway, that means that GP was exactly right - they'll give the $20 subscriptions $20 worth of credits, and the $200 dollars subscriptions $200 worth of credits. That is what the "New Rates" are!
I think it would be more rational to discount a subscription (standard is about 10% in most industries) vs PAYG and agree in principal with your assertion - they haven't specified what the discount is on credits bought in a subscription plan - but there is no indication that they are going to continue allowing thousands of dollars of credits on a $200/m plan.
My guess would be a 10% (or similar) discount if you buy a subscription.
reply