Task 4

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

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