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Re:Gravatars: why publishing your email's hash is not a good... by IgorPartola on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @04:01PM (#999707)
Well of course, my example is an exaggeration, but the idea is that this exposes the poster without them knowing that they are exposed. At the same time, so do a million other things like your IP address in Google's logs on the way to the comment you made on that blog. Let's face it: there's no privacy on the Internet. There's just varying degrees of completely exposed to sort of in the shadows.
Re:Gravatars: why publishing your email's hash is not a good... by ryanelkins on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @04:54PM (#999836)
Well my point was that this isn't really a problem caused by hashed email addresses as much as it is a problem with using email addresses in general. Even if Gravatar used something to completely hide your email address - if you use the same email address in different places your gravatar will be the same and you've compromised yourself, regardless of how they stored them.