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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2022, @03:06PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2022, @03:06PM (#1283472)

    How do you supposedly run the hash backwards to recover the IP?

    You really should go back and understand how this works. CdrTaco explained this way back in 1998 or so as to why it was done and needed, and if you are that paranoid about posted AC comments being tied to your account, then change your IP address. Use a VPN for one but not the other, or if you are on dynamic DNS, refresh your IP. I'm surprised you think the site has the resources and the desire to want to back out the IPs (which even if one could, I don't believe the whole IP address is hashed anyway).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2022, @03:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 21 2022, @03:16PM (#1283476)

    The old admin The Mighty Buzzard admitted it could be done. It is trivial if you know the hash and algorithm to then build a table of all hashed IPs. The hash seed has never been changed per Janrinok. For a pro-privacy site it is pretty horrifying how these simple details are not explained, and the "your IP is never recorded" is at best a grey lie. Supposedly true AC comments have the hashed IP dropped after a couple weeks, but logged in user comments have the IP hash stored forever even if you click "post as AC" which is another grey lie.