This has been discussed countless times.
Some links for starters: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20981
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Things that come to my mind:
*range blocks become impossible, and its impossible to tell if vandals are
using near by ips
*cant do a whois on the ip to see if its a library or something
Suppose those first two come down to the drawback of not knowing the ip is
you dont know the ip
More importantl
Hi,
You may have followed the discussion on Wikimedia-l (and enwiki-l).
For a mere intellectual curiosity I would like to know why hashing the IPs
with a varying salt won't work.
Wouldn't that provide a way to obfuscate IP addresses while maintaining
uniqueness (i. e. a given IP gets alway hashe
