At 4:01 PM -0700 3/7/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> Although it looks like the DCC servers have to collect the IP
information, they don't have to give it out. So the potential for
abuse is limited to the people who run the DCC servers, not to anyone
who can query them.
That's not an effective response to the privace issues. As I said,
that reasoning seemed almost ok when it was thought that DCC servers
would be run by one organization. The current, real life global
So why give you the IP address? Why not encode it with a one-way
hash/encryption? All IP addresses will code the same, but the
database will have no way to determine what IP addresses were passed.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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