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Would a good middle ground would be add some salt to each unique IP, hash the addresses, and hand hashed data over?
by crocodiletears 6y ago
Would a good middle ground would be add some salt to each unique IP, hash the addresses, and hand hashed data over?
- nightfly 6y agoIt would make the ip address information useless. What they probably want to do is figure out how many comments came from the same network blocks that were allocated to organizations (to detect large numbers of fake comments). If you hash the ip addresses you can't figure out which ones came from the same network allocation, the most you could do is figure out which comments came from identical ip addresses.
- crocodiletears 6y agoTrue. Bar assigning each hashed ip a block id, the data would be pretty useless. Even then you might still lose out on some important metadata.