I actually learned a couple of things from this article. First I didn’t realize how much time people really spend creating fictitious sites. Also, I never thought about the variety and cleverness of these sites. The Martin Luther King site for example: I never really thought of racist people actually creating a fake site to lure people away from supporting his ideals and beliefs. The one thing that did bother me a little was the misinformation site about things like AIDS and cancer that professors made. Regardless of whether or not they post a disclaimer on the site I don’t think those are the most ethical subjects to choose when conducting a study. That kind of offended me to think someone whose job is to educate would choose such dangerous subjects to mislead people. I wasn’t aware there were so many websites dedicated to researching and discovering false sites. I honestly never thought about such a site existing.
What I truly found amazing is how the internet has changed even the way people wage war. All those countries instead of using snipers and assassins have hackers. The fact that they use fake websites of their enemies and send viruses to the actual sites and the opposition’s supporter’s sites is amazing. To think that instead of attacking buildings they chose to attack URLs is simply crazy. It makes you wonder if these are tactics used in the mid 90’s when technology was limited to these countries, why would we put every bit of information and control of our military into computers that have already been hacked before?
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