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Disclaimer: IANAL

> If the same IP address is hashed using the same method, the result will always be the same, meaning it can be matched.

The way people get around this is by using an ephemeral salt, that is deleted e.g. daily. After enough time has passed, it'd be impossible to reverse the hash as the salt would be lost.



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