(a little off topic diversion) On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 06:22:17PM +1000, Gryllida wrote: > An IP, as a fundamental identifier, has as much to do with privacy > as a car number you see on a street. (Anyone can look up a name by > car number, in my area, which I expect to be common.)
Actually numberplates were originally conceived as a privacy enhancing technology. The first numberplates had peoples' names on them, but that was considered too intrusive. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
