On 20 May 2011 15:35, Keith Jenkins <kgj2_at_cornell.edu> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone on this list have any opinions
> about whether website owners should publicly post lists of their
> visitors' IP addresses (or hostnames) and to also allow such lists to
> be indexable by search engines?
>
> For example:
> https://www3.ietf.org/usagedata/site_201104.html
My computer at home has a static IP address. If I visit
www.wikileaks.ch, I might not want the world to know that my IP
address is in its access logs.
So this is potentially a gross invasion of privacy.
-- Mike.
Received on Fri May 20 2011 - 10:54:36 EDT