On Dec 12, 2007 7:59 AM, Jared Williams <jared.williams1(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
Could always hash the ip address, and display that. It
would be completely
meaningless outside of wikipedia, so couldn't be tracked back to ISPs or
company owner. But the hash would always remain the same for each IP.
The hashing mechanism would have to be kept incredibly secret, and I'm
not sure that'd be possible. There are only 4 billion IP addresses.
A dictionary attack could probably crack every single address in less
than a year, if the hashing algorithm was discovered and took less
than 8 milliseconds to run.
And you'd still be linkable to your employer (for instance). Your
employer need only make an edit using your work IP to find out what
that IP hashes to.