Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Wickipedia

In this day and time I really don't think wickipedia can be trusted. As days pass more people are becoming knowledgeable about computers. The internet is becoming a big toy to people. People get on the internet and play on it for days at a time. They learn new ways to do different things with the internet. An example of this is that an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted fifteen paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine Diebold, researchers found that the anonymous left behind digital fingerprints. This left hints about the contributor. The hints lead to the location of the computer used to make the edits.
AsI read on about the articles I started thinking really hard; Wickipedia might can be trusted in the future. There are a lot of college graduates out there learning a lot more about computers now. These future students will have the knowledge to stop the ananymous Wikipedia users. An example of this is Cal Tech computation and neural systems graduate student Virgil Griffith. Virgil established a searchable database that ties organizations where those edits apparentlt originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses. In my opinion I think Wickipedia will be safe to search in the near future.

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