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Anonymize Fudforum [message #164823] Wed, 16 March 2011 10:43 Go to next message
alopezie is currently offline  alopezie   Germany
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In Europe there is a clear trend towards limiting the storage of IPs, as many people see them as "personal data".

Well, beside the long story behind this it is a fact that more and more websites have to do something here.

In case of Fudforum there is a simple solution by adding the following code in index.php (resp. in src/root_index.php.t to ensure to maintain if there is new code generated):

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$ip = explode(".", $ip);
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = "".$ip[0].".".$ip[1].".".$ip[2].".99";


As the result the last block is replaced by a generic "99" which is - for the moment - enough in my opinion.

The other thing to be done is "old data". I did a quick sql-statement, which is roughly like the following:

update `XX_msg` set ip_addr = concat(left(ip_addr,length(ip_addr)-2),"99") WHERE right (`ip_addr`,2) > 1

Its not 100% (IP 0-9 are missing), but doing similar queries will do the job.


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[Updated on: Wed, 16 March 2011 13:40]

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Re: Anonymize Fudforum [message #164824 is a reply to message #164823] Wed, 16 March 2011 13:22 Go to previous message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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Apparently Julian Assange (the guy form WikiLeaks) said that the Internet is the "greatest spying machine the world has ever seen" and an obstacle to free speech. This is a great procedure for admins to protect their users online identities.
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