On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:49:01 -0700, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Do this now, please. Even I can see how easy it ought to be to replace the last three digits of an IPv4 address with XXX in publicly viewable lists and logs....and reduce the publicly visible IPv6 string to its first three segments.
It's not. This is not something simple to do technically.
When someone edits without being logged in, automatically log them in under a newly created username "X.Y.Z.xxx #N", where N is just the lowest number which creates a unique name.
(Of course, if you're going to do that, just abandon the whole IP address thing altogether. When a user who is not logged in gets to the edit screen, there are two extra fields: username and password. Username is pre-filled with "Random User #NNNNNNNN", where NNNNNNNN is a random not-yet-used number.)