Started writing the planning report

report/report.lyx

@@ -345,6 +345,117 @@ The combined topics of DNS, IP, web and e-mail are too broad for this thesis,
  field, potentially comparing it to historical data, or another ccTLD.
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+\begin_layout Section*
+Problem description
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+[The problem description shall be detailed and include a background and
+ a motivation to why it is important.
+ Expected results shall also be described.
+ The problem description shall be grounded in the literature base and the
+ state‐of‐practice of the provider of the thesis (company, research group).
+ Plan for adjustment of the problem description along with the progress
+ of the literature studies and pre‐ study of the provider.]
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+In everyday web browsing, browers routinely access a lot of material from
+ other domains or services than the one visited.
+ These exernal resources vary from content that the user explicitly want
+ to obtain, to implicitly loaded third party services, ads, and non-visible
+ resources with the sole purpose of collecting statistical material.
+ All are downloaded on behalf of the user with no or few limitations, and
+ oftentimes without the user's need, understanding and explicit consent.
+ These external resources can all be seen as browsing habit trackers, whose
+ knowledge and power increase with any additional visits to other domains
+ or services loading the same resources.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+While online privacy has been in the spotlight due to recently uncovered
+ large-scale spying operations, the focus has been on national government
+ intelligence agencies collecting information around the globe.
+ They have been able to traffic data and metadata by, among several techniques,
+ covertly hooking into the internet infrastructure.
+ In contrast, external resources are approved by or actively installed by
+ site and service owners, and presented openly to users with some technical
+ skills.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Section*
+Approach
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+[The approach is a preliminary description of how the problem will be solved.
+ This section shall also include a description of a method to evaluate that
+ the problem is solved in a satisfactory way.]
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Section*
+Literature base
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+[The literature base describes the planned literature study and gives examples
+ of different directions of a good theoretical grounding of the work.]
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Section*
+Time plan
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+[The time plan describes the activities and milestones of the work with
+ the resolution of a week.
+ Dates for planned final seminar are included.
+ For degree projects on advanced level (e.g.
+ Master level) dates for half‐time checkpoint are also included.
+ For these degree projects the expected results for the half‐time checkpoint
+ are also explicitly described.
+ This plan is updated in cooperation with the tutor.]
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+Direction and scope
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+Currently, we're thinking of looking at external domains used by the .SE
+ domains already in the health status report (government, media, banks,
+ larger websites).
+ Domain-specific resources (images, css, domain scripts) from external but
+ private top level domains are secondary to resources loaded from external
+ services/companies (file hosting services, CDNs, advertising, analytics,
+ third party content providers).
+ The assumption is that all external resources can act as trackers, tracking
+ users across domains.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+Questions, to be answered primarily from a Swedish perspective.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+What are the general kinds of trackers, how many and which trackers are
+ there?
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+To what extent can the average internet user's browsing habits be correlated
+ across the most commonly visited webpages?
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+Are you as tracked using secure HTTPS as insecure HTTP?
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+How does this compare to historical data (if readily available from earlier
+ .SE status checks) or other ccTLDs/newTLDs?
+\end_layout
+
 \begin_layout Section*
 Relevant courses taken at LiU
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