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		BenjiWiebe on Jan 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The old internet shows signs of quietly coming bac... Except there's so few IPs (v4) you could just bruteforce it in not too much time.

WesolyKubeczek on Jan 26, 2022 [–]

There are different kinds of hashes. You can, for example, assign numbers to your incoming IPs. The first one to come in gets 1, the second gets 2, and so on. Numbers zero out at midnight, correlation between them and real IPs are at the load balancer. Good luck bruteforcing these.

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