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HARMFUL INFORMATION IN THE INTERNET
Nima Seyed SaboonchiID : 078576
Information Sources in the WEBPopular SourcesWhat is the wrong with this?Which sources are reliable?
Information Sources in the WEB
Nowadays Internet be come as a mostly used information source
Every day Millions of people creates new Web pages with different subjects
Millions of people use those shared information
Popular Information Sources
A Sample
Imagine I’m looking for information about romance empire.
My friend send a link from Wikipedia
WikiPedia (click it to check)
Offered Page in Wikipedia
Cached information I want to use these information in my
paper
Roman Empire controlled approximately 3,000,000 km/² (second paragraph)
Picture of the seat of the Senate.
What is wrong with this?
Wikipedia is the Recourse for millions of people
5000 visitor / second in this site
1000’s of editors work on it
Compare these pages
Real Wikipedia page
controlled approximately 5,900,000 km²
Fake Wikipedia page
controlled approximately 3,000,000 km²
Real pic Fake pic
How it’s possible?
My friend sent me a fake web site
Create fake web sites that looks like Wikipedia can be done very easily
With some scripts even URL can be hide
In digital world every things is possible…
Two addresses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
http://wikipedia.org.saboonchi.com/romans/
Click and brows these to find the differences
Why it’s harmful?
Imagine such cases… medicine information… information that affect your
life… as a resource in your theses… going to share with others…
Some tips
Always use well known web sites
Be sure you are in original web site
Always check URL if some one send you a link.
So
All information in the internet is NOT
exact, correct and
accruable
Feel free to search and searchBut never trust easily
source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
http://wikipedia.org.saboonchi.com/romans/
Software that I used
Adobe Dreamweaver