[Wikitech-l] Obfuscating IP addresses on history pages

2015-04-05 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi, You may have followed the discussion on Wikimedia-l (and enwiki-l). For a mere intellectual curiosity I would like to know why hashing the IPs with a varying salt won't work. Wouldn't that provide a way to obfuscate IP addresses while maintaining uniqueness (i. e. a given IP gets alway hashe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obfuscating IP addresses on history pages

2015-04-05 Thread Brian Wolff
Things that come to my mind: *range blocks become impossible, and its impossible to tell if vandals are using near by ips *cant do a whois on the ip to see if its a library or something Suppose those first two come down to the drawback of not knowing the ip is you dont know the ip More importantl

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obfuscating IP addresses on history pages

2015-04-05 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
This has been discussed countless times. Some links for starters: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20981 Nemo ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obfuscating IP addresses on history pages

2015-04-08 Thread Cristian Consonni
2015-04-05 17:31 GMT+02:00 Brian Wolff : > Things that come to my mind: > *range blocks become impossible, and its impossible to tell if vandals are > using near by ips > *cant do a whois on the ip to see if its a library or something Oh, I didn't think about this! What about: * creating a new pe

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obfuscating IP addresses on history pages

2015-04-08 Thread Kevin Wayne Williams
Cristian Consonni schreef op 2015/04/08 om 3:00: 2015-04-05 17:31 GMT+02:00 Brian Wolff : Things that come to my mind: *range blocks become impossible, and its impossible to tell if vandals are using near by ips *cant do a whois on the ip to see if its a library or something Oh, I didn't think

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obfuscating IP addresses on history pages

2015-04-08 Thread Cristian Consonni
2015-04-08 16:11 GMT+02:00 Kevin Wayne Williams : >> What about: >> * creating a new permission group (say "IP watchers") that can see the >> IP in non-hashed form? >> * compile some sort of list and automatically tagging edits from >> schools and libraries? (this could be useful regardless of hash

Re: [Wikitech-l] Obfuscating IP addresses on history pages

2015-04-08 Thread Brian Wolff
On Apr 8, 2015 11:12 AM, "Kevin Wayne Williams" wrote: > > Cristian Consonni schreef op 2015/04/08 om 3:00: > >> 2015-04-05 17:31 GMT+02:00 Brian Wolff : >>> >>> Things that come to my mind: >>> *range blocks become impossible, and its impossible to tell if vandals are >>> using near by ips >>> *c