Bug hopefully not affecting GiP

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Wed Feb 17 07:24:22 PST 2016


On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 01:59:40AM +0000, CJB wrote:

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35592916

get_iplayer won't be affected unless any of the hostnames that it
queries for are malicious. You'd have to be a paranoid nutter to worry
about the BBC and their hosting partners* doing that.

* and whoever runs your DNS server, etc

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