Is digicrime.com Safe?

Payload-free exploits. I hope the rating stays at yellow; it's a fair middle ground, and accurate at the same time. Press Report (from the well-respected CU digest): One site erroneously blocked by the WebSENSE product under its "Hacking" category is http://www.digicrime.com -- a humorous site created by security experts to educate the public about computer crime. "WebSENSE apparently took the site for a real computer crime site," Tyre said. "DigiCrime is not just one bad block out of 200,000: it is one of 54 hand-picked sites by the makers of WebSENSE itself included in the downloadable demo versions of the product. Although The Censorware Project has not done a full analysis of WebSENSE, one must seriously question its claims to accuracy if it cannot even get its demo blocks right." WebSENSE also reportedly blocks A Different Light Bookstore, http://www.adlbooks.com/, specializing in gay or lesbian literature. The company claims that the product blocks 200,000 sites.”” Yatti: Umm, by that logic, I should flag all bank sites as bad! I.e. if a cracker got hold of the site, it would be "disastrous".

Nothing maliciously wrong with DigiCrime - it's simply a cute joke (satire). authored by the PH.D Mathematician and Google research scientist: Kevin McCurley (http://www.mccurley.org/) view a WhoIS for digicrime.com. I've lurked this site off and on for several years now - always good to catch n00bs with ;-)

I remember this from quite a few years ago, and even now it proves that not all security is what it is made out to be. It's quite harmless although I am sure many users may think otherwise, but remember....it's a joke! There Is NO malware embedded and it will NOT cause damage to users computers.

It drives you to the end of your wits, then it gives you a heart attack, and leaves you bursting with laughter. I've never seen so many exploits, bugs and trojans in one place. It is nice to see, feel and train yourself on every one of these, knowing that there is no malicious "payload"... My McAfee installation did not like it. At all :)

From http://www.digicrime.com/disclaimer.html: "DigiCrime is a joke!!! While this site might seem real at times, it is not. There are certainly people with criminal intent in the world, but I am not among them. Actually, some of us working in the field of information security have noticed many vulnerabilities of information systems that can easily be exploited by a technologically advanced criminal element. We don't advocate doing this, but we often find it both amusing and alarming to ponder the possibilities. DigiCrime was founded to lampoon these corporate values, and has been in operation since 1995. "