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by quesomaster9000 1135 days ago
With little over 4 billion IPv4 addresses.

From a stackoverflow post from 12 years ago:

> I know I do 622 million SHA-256's per sec on a Radeon HD5830.

Which would take around 6 seconds to brute force a 32bit address space.

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you can just salt it with some stable random thing
In which case you can just take 6 seconds to generate all the new hashes and build a new lookup table.
You can further add bucketing, and eventually move closer to FLoC.

But this is aside the point, as the spirit of the law only allows "processing for legitimate interests". The use of technology, cookies or on the server is irrelevant. If thread OP has evaluated their collection[0] as legitimate, they can use whatever technology within guidelines. Otherwise, even a cookie less data collection would require consent.

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