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>>lxm+(OP)
I wish services didn't store IPs at all.

If abuse is an issue, why not hash the IP with a nonce?

>>xvecto+W4
There are only 2^32 possible IP addresses. You can brute-force that on a personal laptop.

>>gizmo6+m6
If you use a hard hash function you cannot brute force that on a laptop - not even a tenth of that. You can, however, spin up compute instances to brute force it in a few days if you have $50k lying around.

>>xvecto+Ee
What are the odds that a website will run a computationally hard hash function on every single HTTP request just so it can log something less sensitive than an IP address?