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Re:Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusation by WesolyKubeczek on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:15AM (#27748899)
And having my IP address is going to help them how exactly?
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Re:Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusation by stavros on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:19AM (#27748962)
Who needs (or asked for) your IP address?
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Re:Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusation by Ensorceled on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:22AM (#27749004)
The new Audacity owners are claiming they will only "hash" user IPs and throw away the salt after 24 hours.

So clearly they think they need them for some reason.

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Re:Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusation by enumjorge on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @10:38AM (#27749226)
To the parent comment’s point, storing a hash of an IP address is very different from storing an IP address.
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Re:Audio editor Audacity denies spyware accusation by LinAGKar on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:04PM (#27752909)
Not much different, since there are only 4 billion possibilities. A complete rainbow table (for 256-bit hashes) would take up 144 GiB.
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