A Web of Trust Oriented Information Flow Network

Abstract

The evolution of electronic communities makes it common and easier for deceptive information to spread in today's connected world. Existing researches on information flow policy mainly concentrate on confidentiality of information. However, the information flow policy itself cannot prevent deceptive information from disseminating inside the information flow network. This research studies the mechanism of dissemination of deceptive information based on the information flow network and the web of trust. Moreover, we proposed two different models, namely push model and pull model, to illustrate the two-way deceptive information dissemination mechanism based on the web of trust. We also present the prerequisites for deceptive information to disseminate based on the subject and object trusts in these two models