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Ythan said:
Well we use IPs for a lot of things, from identifying puppets to tracking usage statistics to blocking e-mail harvesters. Remember the DDoS attacks we suffered a while ago? It was only through IPs that we were able to track them down and get them stopped. Sometimes people lose access to their accounts and we can use their IP to verify their identity. Basically IP logs are a potent administrative tool, and without them we'd be rather crippled in our ability to deal with the random issues which pop up from time to time. Not to mention that in 8+ years, we've never received a request for private information let alone a legal subpoena. And don't forget that unless you have external images disabled, people can already log your IP quite easily. The only way I can see it working is some convoluted encryption scheme with keys in different countries, so we could still keep logs for our own use. When I start to think about what that would entail, I just recommend a proxy server.

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Yeah I know this. Oh well. I just hope your servers never get raided.

I don't see how they could but you never know. The government is doing a lot of things we all thought it couldn't do lately. Be it legal for them to do so or not.