Re: [Bug-wget] Overly permissive hostname matching

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/19/2014 11:26 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
>> wget "http://publicsuffix.org/list/effective_tld_names.dat"; -O $MOZILLA_LIST
>
> I recommend using the following HTTPS URL instead, so that you have some
> level of cryptographic verification of the data before loading it:
>
> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/tip/netwerk/dns/effective_tld_names.dat
>
> (this is what i use to update the debian publicsuffix package)
Ah, good point. I did not even notice that.

Jeff