On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Daniel Friesen
<lists(a)nadir-seen-fire.com> wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:49:01 -0700, Risker
<risker.wp(a)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.)