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from the I-love-the-smell-of-burning-trolls-in-the-morning dept.
Things finally came to a head on slashdot last night, and now anonymous posts are banned. No more anonymous nazi ASCII art, no anonymous racism, and no APK. More in this journal entry [Ed's Comment: And lots of interesting comments too ...].
It's one way to combat anonymous hate speech and forum spam.
[Editor (JR) We've looked at the site but we cannot find an announcement that anonymous posts are actually banned; it might simply be a case that the software is not working correctly, although it would seem to be an unlikely cause. Does anyone in our community have any additional information to categorically prove or disprove that anonymous comments are disabled?
Furthermore, as there are many more comments in the journal entry than there are here, I would recommend making any new comments on BarbaraHudson's journal entry rather than splitting the discussion into two.]
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:35AM (1 child)
Us admins have access to the salt, so not really relevant. Mind you, we also have access to the servers so we could just turn logging on and match up the timestamps of posts to the access log. Using a hashed IP address was supposed to make it a nontrivial thing to find a person's IP address rather than seeing it at a glance. That and to annoy law enforcement. There really is no way to keep a determined admin from knowing anything they want to that's going on with their servers.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Sunday August 11 2019, @07:34AM
Wouldn't annoy law enforcement long. If you can regenerate the hash to know the IP is the same it means you have the salting data. Four billion tries gets the IP, worst case. Brute forcing a 32bit value isn't hard now. But if Officer Friendly has a warrant they will get in anyway, best they get what they want and go instead of setting up camp and rooting around.