me. wikipedia is a link. actual sources. i might go to wikipedia. first. check the footnotes. sources to make sure the person writing the wikipedia. >> huhow i wrote my papers in college. >> i checked web md. something wrong with my thyroid. not sure which way. and going through menopause for six months. >> my gosh. i have a theory. wikipedia is as close as you got to god. >> not crazy talk. >> god is all of our brains. collective consciousness. >> freaking me out when i think about it. >> singularity. upload your brain on to the web. >> that's what it is. >> so you can have hair on the web. or shagging wagon. >> shagging wagon. >> true. we are talking about the big guy. >> wikipedia is right. never seen it. on my own page. i'm racist and sexist. i didn't know that. i didn't, i was like, yeah. there are mistakes on my page i cannot change. there is a quote on my page. saying, libertarian. i don't know what it is. never said that. for the record, i wrote your wikipedia page. >> you saw into the future. >> all right. now you can prove this. and let it out. african-american organ

>> people who have too much time. >> they are not inaccurate. >> for me wikipedia is a link to actual sources. if i need to look something up i may go to wikipedia first and i will check the foot notes and then go to the primary sources to make sure the person writing wikipedia -- >> oh i check wikipedia a lot and it turns out there is something wrong with my thyroid, i am not sure which way and i have been going through menopause for the last six months. >> that's beautiful. >> i have a theory that wikipedia is as close as you get to god. >> that's actually not crazy talk. god is all of our brains and sort of collective consciousness. >> it is freaking me out. >> the fact we can amalgamate this truth is heaven. >> it is the singularity when you can up load your brain on thed with. except you can't have hair on the web, greg or a staggin wagon. >> if you put any word into wick caw petted -- wikipedia somebody will have deett -- devoted time to it. >> isn't it scientology and how it sort of happened? >> that is l ron hubbard. we are talking about the big guy. >> oh. >> wikipedia is alw

wikipedia. joining me now is the executive director of the imf institute.k you for joining us tonight. this shocks me, i have to say. should i be worried that my doctor is going to wikipedia? anyone can change wikipedia. >> we don't think you should be worried too much. doctors are going to sources of information and that is not often where doctor goes to get information. gerri: on some topics wikipedia is not always right. you say when it comes to medical topics it is different. >> well, what we are seeing is wikipedia has come a long way. and for example the page about diabetes or the e about rheumatoid arthritis and the updates on those pages. they are coming not from anyone but from clinicians or health care professionals. gerri: who knew that. holy cow. show folks how often wikipedia is listed for information. those health care pages about 1.9 million hits last year. to that is not just nothing. the let's talk a little bit about social media with health car what is my doctor going to respond to my e-mail? i mean, i would really like to see a real-time

and wikipedia told me i was in trouble. >> it is called ransom ware, most well-written piece of softwareerts have come across. >> completely unpractical for all practical purposes. >> paul says crypto locker uses security world's best encryption, and right. only good option is wipe your computer clean and resfroer a back up more than three weeks old. if you don't have one, lose your data or purchase the key. >> it's a business. isn't it? >> absolutely there is one rent estimate that perpetrators have netted somewhere around $27 million from this. >> one user did pay and got his data back but says not everyone does payments are in bit coin that is virtually unvase treysable. >> there is no way to know who is behind that address. >> for douglas, paying criminals is out of the kwechlt >> i personally dmot have $400 worth of files on this computer i can't recreate he lost grandmother's poetry he'll have to recopy he's careful about what he clicks >> they got me. >> he says your best defense is to back up regularly, and keep several old back up going back at least a month. the users do pay to

and wikipedia told me i was in trouble. >> it is called ransom ware, most well-written piece of software experts have come across. >> completely unpractical for all practical purposes. >> paul says crypto locker uses security world's best encryption, and right. only good option is wipe your computer clean and resfroer a back up more than three weeks old. if you don't have one, lose your data or purchase the key. >> it's a business. isn't it? >> absolutely there is one rent estimate that perpetrators have netted somewhere around $27 million from this. >> one user did pay and got his data back but says not everyone does payments are in bit coin that is virtually unvase treysable. >> there is no way to know who is behind that address. >> for douglas, paying criminals is out of the kwechlt >> i personally dmot have $400 worth of files on this computer i can't recreate he lost grandmother's poetry he'll have to recopy he's careful about what he clicks >> they got me. >> he says your best defense is to back up regularly, and keep several old back up going back at least a month. the users do pa

me. >> you are on wikipedia jie. is it? >> yes. >> now i know who wrote my wikipedia.s are down which is why big milk needs to change up what they are doing. but i think milk has traditionally been a breakfast drink or something you put in your cereal. as a kid i drank it a lot. do adults actually sit down and eat breakfast? >> they will at mcdonalds. >> joanne you have a breakfast every day? you wake up and sit at a table. >> i feel like most adults don't do that. you grab something on your way out the door. >> i do it at work. >> do you think it is a smart move? do you like the campaign? >> i think the got milk campaign was so successful because they relied on the endorsements. >> i think it was successful because it focused on snacks. it had people eating cookies and brown knees and they had to wash it down with milk. milk is an indulgence. it is not about health. it is not like you are running a a marathon and chugging milk. if a guy said hey you want to grab a glass of milk? >> that wouldn't do. >> nobody is eating dry serial saying i wish i had an add to know wha

. >> went to google and looked it up, and low and behold, "wikipedia" told me i was in pretty bad trouble. >> cryptolocker is notorious. it's the most sophisticated piece of software the experts have come across. >> completely unbreakable, for all practical purposes. even if you harnessed the world's computers, you wouldn't be able to break the crypto. that's what they are using here. >> john said cryptolocker uses the world's best security encryption, the only good option is to wipe your computer clean and restore from a backup that's more than three weeks old. if you don't have one, you are left with a choice. lose all your data or purchase the key to unscramble it. >> it's really a business, isn't it? >> absolutely. there's one recent estimate the perpetrators have netted somewhere around $27 million from this. >> we talked to one use who are did get his data back. but he sid not everyone does. payments are in bit coin, an electronic currency that's virtually untraceable. >> there's no way to know who is the person behind it. >> douglas said paying criminals is out of the question. >>

. >> jack andraka: so, with me, i just used google and wikipedia to find a new way to attack pancreaticcancer. at the beginning of this, i didn't even know i had a pancreas. so if i could do that... ( laughter ) >> safer: and he's become a regular at the white house-- four visits this year alone. >> president barack obama: where's jack? there he is. jack, stand up. ( applause ) >> safer: you've also become a heavy-duty celebrity? >> jack andraka: it's pretty insane. i mean, you see barack obama. >> safer: president barack obama. >> jack andraka: yeah, president barack obama. ( laughs ) and i'm just like, "hello, mr. president." and then, "hello, first lady." it's just... like, it's crazy. >> safer: in the past year, he has spoken in canada, italy, australia, greece, the united nations and, so far, four trips to england... >> jack andraka: earlier this year... >> safer: ...including this address he gave to the renowned royal society of medicine about his test and the problems with current cancer diagnostics. >> jack andraka: i type this into the internet... >> safer: this 15-year-old has

hundred million dollars into war that calling the end of what we call me had to answer dot com for more details. and also online at wikipedia it comes under the scrutiny of police in finland who say the online encyclopedia had been illegally collecting money from its turn as well this story just a click away. right to see. first street view and i think that you're. on our reporters were very. inspiring. to be in the. mob. was no death penalty. maximum prison sentence of twenty one days norway's penitentiary system as among the most humane in the wild and now the country is growing a step further with an experimental jail giving convicts access to pretty much everything except freedom oh she's a girl is going off reports and very. smart. like with the freedom of thing. has been living here for nearly four years getting an education working as a car mechanic and serving his fifteen and a half year long sentence in jail week up in the morning talk show thank you bertha's go to joe old to school. to school you have dinner relaxed with you like normal life just we are back war this is holden one of the most humane prisons in the

wikipedia. i bet it encouraging that last jason from utah, which tells me that i might have found an audience who appreciates good mormon humor. i thought mitt romney might've killed your taste for it. are known for our tireless outreach efforts. that is kind of how i view tonight. best of all, i am already inside. there is no door you can slam while i say, if i could just have a minute of your time. [laughter] it is nice to share this experience. it is comforting to see nancy pelosi here. when i was getting nervous, i went to nancy and said, what can i do? like wisdom of hers she said, embrace the foc lock. speaking of donna edwards -- no. no. that was not -- no. i just hope that donna does not have higher political divisions as we all know that donna was a community organizer. and we all know that that background does not lead anywhere. what you may not know is that donna used to work for nasa. she wants proposed that we establish a national park on the moon. true story. i have to tell you that is a big mistake. during the next government just one more is part the republicans will get blamed fo

wikipedia. i bet it encouraging that last jason from utah, which tells me that i might have found an audience whoght mitt romney might've killed your taste for it. are known for our tireless outreach efforts. that is kind of how i view tonight. best of all, i am already inside. there is no door you can slam while i say, if i could just have a minute of your time. [laughter] it is nice to share this experience. it is comforting to see nancy pelosi here. when i was getting nervous, i went to nancy and said, what can i do? like wisdom of hers she said, embrace the foc lock. speaking of donna edwards -- no. no. that was not -- no. i just hope that donna does not have higher political divisions as we all know that donna was a community organizer. and we all know that that background does not lead anywhere. what you may not know is that donna used to work for nasa. she wants proposed that we establish a national park on the moon. true story. i have to tell you that is a big mistake. during the next government just one more is part the republicans will get blamed for closing. i don't want to be part of

. >> wikipedia when black, craigslist web black, phone lines on capitol hill melted. members of congress were rushing to issue statements. it was for meto believe after all of this, we had one. the thing everyone said was impossible, that some of the biggest companies in the world had written off as a pipe dream, had happened. we did it. we won. this is a historic week in internet politics. >> a thing we heard from people in washington, d.c. was they were receiving more e-mails and phone calls on the blackout date and they had received about anything. i think that was an extremely exciting moment. is easy sometimes to feel like you're powerless. you come out in the streets and march and yell and nobody hears you. i am here to tell you today, you are powerful. >> the film premiered at the sundance film festival in park city, utah last month. aaron swartz inspired organizers to create today's, "the day we .ight back" protest >> we go to san francisco where we're joined by rainey reitman, the activist and director of the electronic frontier foundation. she is cofounder of the freedom of the press foundation. welcome to democracy now! tal