On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 15:01, Kurt J<[email protected]> wrote: >>> there really are ways to make the data nearly impossible to >>> trace back to the users. >> >> I wouldn't bet on it. > > i'm not a crypto expert by any means. afaik, things like sha-1 have > been 'cracked' in the sense that collisions can be found with a fair > amount of effort. even so, there are things like sha-256 that have > not been cracked. maybe they will someday but how much time/resources > can the RIAA have left? they're not NSA. > > anonymous user data can be safe with a little effort.
Not sure what the relevance of crypto is. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/last-fm-and-the-diabolical-power-of-data-mining Mike _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
