Task4

Nima Seyed Saboonchi

ID : 078576

Information Sources in the WEB

Popular Sources

What is the wrong with this?

Which sources are reliable?

Popular Information Sources

Samples

Imagine we are looking for information

about romance empire.

I use Wikipedia (most popular resource)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire

This is the page

Cached information

I want to use these information as a source

Roman Empire controlled

approximately 3,000,000 km/²

Picture of the

seat of the Senate.

What is wrong with this? Wikipedia is the Recourse for millions

of people

5000 click / second

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

Technique

Create fake web sites that looks like

Wikipedia can be done in few minutes

With some scripts even URL can be

looks like the same URL of the real

page

Two addresses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire

http://wikipediaorgpages.saboonchi.com/

Brows these and find the differences

This work is done as a sample.

In some minutes

Why its harmful?

Imagine such cases

… medicine information

… information 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 is NOT

exact, correct and accruable

Feel free to search and search

But never trust easily

source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_E

mpire

http://wikipediaorgpages.saboonchi.co

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ATTENTION

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