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		zeroimpl on June 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA ... 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?

josefx on June 6, 2021 [–]

The website could cache the hash for an hour or two.

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