Introduce 3 good web sites (in English; make links to the sites)

I’m going to introduce three good English web sites. First is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, and you can find a lot of information in different languages. However, the negative point of Wikipedia is anybody can write about the topic, so the information might be wrong. Secondaly, Sparknotes is a good web site, especially for the students. This is a free online study guides, and you can find summary and analysis of many books. If you need to understand deeply about the story that you are studying or having difficulty, you can go this site. When I was a high school student, I used this site a lot and it was very useful. Lastly, CNN is an online news site, and it is helpful when you want to know what is happening in the world or U.S. now, and when you want to find news articles.

What is Social Engineering?

The word of social engineering is used especially by hackers, and it means fraud. It is also called social racking or social hacking. Obviously, it is one of the crimes. These hackers get innocent users' passwords and information of the users through the Internet. When they steal the information of the users, they pretend that they are nice people or they make imaginary company and tell the users that the company is safety. When they do this, they use psychological tricks so that they can impose people’s mind easily. Also, some of them memorize someone’s password. Email is great target, too because there are a lot of ways to do bad things. Therefore, we should not completely trust in computer, and remind that there are disadvantage things, not only advantage things on computer.

What do you know about the Mac (Apple computers)?

Before I read the class notes on the web page about the Mac, I did not know about it at all. Also, there are only few friends who have the Mac around me. One thing that I knew was the company of the Mac sells the iPod. However, after reading, I felt the Mac is better than Windows. On the class notes, it says Windows can get virus easily, and I agree with it. Now, I have anti virus software in my computer, but before I have spoiled a computer by infection of virus. Also, the anti virus software cost about 5,000 yen. On the other hand, in the reading says that the Mac computers do not have virus, and do not have to buy anti virus software! Both the Mac and Windows have many other good features, but I think security is the best feature to decide buying a computer. Therefore, I will consider about buying the Mac computer, when I buy a computer next time.