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A comment on Ask HN: Could Wikipedia show hashed IP addresses instead?.

Re:Ask HN: Could Wikipedia show hashed IP addresses instead? by pnako on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:38AM (#21267364)
It would be trivial to brute force, so almost pointless.
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Re:Ask HN: Could Wikipedia show hashed IP addresses instead? by u-dissolve on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:49AM (#21269776)
Yes, but brute forcing would take longer to do. Could they also hash it, say, a few thousand times in order to increase the cost of brute forcing?

Isn't some layer of obfuscation better than a bare IP address?

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