And my point was how do you "brute force" an algorithm that is only run on the IP address that an anonymous node at PerlMonks is posted via?

All security is relative and has the potential to be broken. So by your logic, we should just abanodon all of it.

If somebody can spoof TCP from arbitrary IP addresses, I doubt they'll be wasting their considerable resources trying to sniff out the IP address of some "anonymous" poster to PerlMonks.

A more realistic privacy concern is somebody realizing that some other anonymous poster is posting through their same corporate firewall. Which would simply be another reason to post "anonymously" by registering as "codejunkie" via some gmail account.

So, no, I don't consider "brute force" a big concern for an anonymous posting IP addressing hash function. But privacy concerns certainly should be raised before something like this is implemented (something I only give moderate odds of ever happening).

- tye        

In reply to Re^8: monastery mark-upedness (privacy) by tye
in thread monastery mark-upedness by my_nihilist

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