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shadowgovt on June 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real...

Is hiding the last octet of the IP address really enough privacy?

anticrymactic on June 3, 2023 [–]

Do these people deserve privacy?

Dah00n on June 3, 2023 | [–]

Yes, because many are residential IPs, so likely hacked machines in a botnet.

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