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18th January 2007 - Link Blog

Visual Security: 9-block IP Identification. Smart (and pretty) trick for showing a representation tied to a commenter’s IP address without affecting their privacy.

Posted 18th January 2007 at 4:55 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 18th January 2007.

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