>>251867
> you are dumb because you call me dumb for not using TOR and complaining that a website has my IP.
Hello, Mr. police officer. Tell me more about why not to use Tor?
You niggers will always complain that IPs are stored and the administrators can read them. Obviously, it is useful for moderation because admins recognise which IP range belongs to spammers or which ones are VPNs and proxies.
It helps admins decide whether to ban the whole subnet or ban a single IP. Most often users are on a residential ISP, whereas most spammers and are on VPNs, proxy services, and corporate or commercial ISPs.
Consider however, there are 2 mitigations in place:
1. After a short time, the IPs are no longer stored in the posts, they get "pruned" because there is no need to know the IP of a post from e.g 1 year ago.
2. Optionally, in jschan the admin can disable IP storage completely. Only the hashes are stored, and there are some techniques used to still allow range bans to function. (Of course in this case, the admin must also make sure the webserver doesn't store IP logs, not only the imageboard software).
But both of these rely on trust of the service operator. Why trust anybody? If you want your privacy, use Tor (or lokinet, i2p, etc) No, not a useless VPN. Tor. And use the .onion site.
And in regards to >>251875. Assuming you are not just spreading FUD to fear monger and make users scared to post, I will give you a real answer. The IP hashing scheme is as follows:
For an IP like 1.2.3.4, the "broad range" is hash(1.2+secret), and "narrow range" is hash(1.2.3+seret). Full IP is hash(1.2.3.4+secret). You would need an IP in every /24 to be able to know both the broad and narrow range for any IP. Same concept for ipv6. And this is only the range hashes, you still can't know exactly every final octet, nor can you "recover the original" without the salt.
The salt is much longer than 4 bytes, so I don't know what you are talking about. If there was a vulnerability, you would be responsible and send a bug report email to the software author, not spread false information about things that don't exist, right?
But besides everything, you all know this site uses Cloudflare. The US government therefore knows the time, content, and IP of every single post on the site EXCEPT FOR TOR.