[sldev] Linden Lab Navigations and Landmark Project

[J Ross Nicoll]

Agreed. Not to mention IP addresses are incredibly hard to keep  
hidden, because they're fundamental to so many things. Better to spend  
the effort minimising the data attached to the IP address, IMHO (which  
unfortunately is more an ISP issue).

On 22 Apr 2008, at 16:45, Jason Giglio wrote:

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> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> And don't give me any of that "if you have nothing to hide" crap.
>> You're just begging for a dose of Godwin's Law.
>
> I don't think anyone's arguing that.  It's just that IP addresses are
> inherently public information.  It's *how computers communicate on the
> internet*.  No one ever intended for IP addresses to be private, not
> even the original design of SL has this as a goal.  It just happened,
> for the most part, as a side effect of the old architecture.  You  
> know,
> the one that doesn't scale.
>
> - -Jason
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