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Your IP address is hashed when you connect and then a large part of it is lopped off. The part that isn't lopped off is used for ID. There is collision risk; definitely use alternatives if not comfortable with that -- it was made for a small handful of friends in Discord to share >10MB attachments and definitely not for storing folks' medical information.

Edit: On reconsideration, though, given that, I went ahead and removed the link, email address, and solicitation generally. I'm confident nothing would go wrong in the context of the 1000 or so people I imagine would ever see that link before the service is removed/renamed in some years, but I can appreciate the high-value liability of being wrong on that. Thanks.



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