Someone told me that McAfee Web Advisor is reporting our site as unsafe, but I am unable to confirm. If you see this warning please let me know here so I can look into it.
TIA
I asked Google AI if PS is “safe”:
The website peacefulscience.org is safe in the technical sense; it does not contain viruses or malware and adheres to standard terms of service regarding harmful content.
However, the site’s content and reputation for neutrality are subjects of debate among different groups.
Technical Safety: The site’s terms of service indicate a commitment to avoiding harmful content like viruses, malware, spam, or illicit material. Standard cybersecurity practices would suggest it is a safe site to visit.
Content and Credibility: Peaceful Science is an organization and forum that facilitates dialogue at the intersection of science (particularly evolutionary science) and religious belief, including intelligent design (ID) and creationism.
Different Perspectives: The site aims to be a forum where ideas are weighed on their merits, with no specific doctrine enforced. However, some critics, such as those from creationist websites, view its science as “openly hostile” to their beliefs, while some evolutionists may be skeptical of its engagement with ID proponents.
Dialogue and Debate: The forum features vigorous debate on topics like the origins of life, the “lab leak” theory, and the merits of different scientific arguments. Participants include people from diverse backgrounds, including atheists and various religious perspectives.
In summary, the website is not technically unsafe (e.g., it won’t harm your computer). Whether you find its content “safe” depends entirely on your own scientific and religious perspectives and your comfort level with engaging in a complex, often contentious, dialogue between these different viewpoints.
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I can hardly object to that.
My institution’s network flags Peaceful Science as suspicious.
Thanks, @Art
That is likely due to an old warning that hasn’t been cleared at your institution yet. If you are still getting that warning in a few weeks let me know, and I’ll figure out who to email about it.
Mine block PS completely (though probably due to some scripting that’s no longer present).
I had an issue where I could not log in from home without a VPN (or use cell data), but I never was able to trace to cause. That what got me started trying to figure out these issues.
So far I have discovered the Internet seems to be at least as fouled-up as anything else.
Like nobody has ever seen before. Nobody knew how complicated it is.
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I am still using Kaspersky (for some reason) and its real-time web-filtering Safe Browsing flags Peaceful Science as unsafe. It bars me from accessing the site at all. It says the site “presents a potential data leakage threat.” I suspect a false positive.
The block consistently triggers on the following endpoints:
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https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/message-bus/* (long-polling endpoints)
It looks like Kaspersky’s data-leakage protection has added these Discourse infrastructure endpoints to its reputation database, resulting in a hard block despite all traffic being first-party and over HTTPS.
This appears to be a vendor false positive, but I wanted to make you aware in case you prefer to report it upstream to Kaspersky, since the block appears to be coming from their reputation database rather than from site behavior.
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Thank you @John_Bauer , and Long time No See! 
I will look into this when I have a moment.
CC: @swamidass
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It’s been a minute. Busy making a family and stuff.
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