Internet Surveys by Direct Mailing: An Innovative Way of Collecting Data

This article describes a new method of collecting data by direct mailing via the Internet. Feasibility and capacities were evaluated through a worldwide opinion poll on global future risks of mankind and potential solutions. Within 1 day, a structured questionnaire was sent to 8,859 randomly selected e-mail addresses. One thousand seven hundred and thirteen were remailed properly completed, 90 within 4 days. Most respondents were residents of North America (64) and Europe (21 ), male (87), and 30 years old on average. Environmental destruction (52) was mentioned as the primary problem, followed by violence (45) and unemployment (45). Education (71 ) was the most frequently proposed solution to future problems. It is obvious that Internet surveys at this time are not repre sentative of the total population. However, they open new dimensions in the interrogation of experts and opinion leaders, especially considering their efficiency and potential for automation

Tracking Users across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

User tracking on the Internet can come in various forms, e.g., via cookies or by fingerprinting web browsers. A technique that got less attention so far is user tracking based on TLS and specifically based on the TLS session resumption mechanism. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first that investigate the applicability of TLS session resumption for user tracking. For that, we evaluated the configuration of 48 popular browsers and one million of the most popular websites. Moreover, we present a so-called prolongation attack, which allows extending the tracking period beyond the lifetime of the session resumption mechanism. To show that under the observed browser configurations tracking via TLS session resumptions is feasible, we also looked into DNS data to understand the longest consecutive tracking period for a user by a particular website. Our results indicate that with the standard setting of the session resumption lifetime in many current browsers, the average user can be tracked for up to eight days. With a session resumption lifetime of seven days, as recommended upper limit in the draft for TLS version 1.3, 65% of all users in our dataset can be tracked permanently.Comment: 11 page

The Influence of the Internet on Politics (Comparative Case Study in China, Japan, Korea, and Indonesia)

The Internet is a necessity for people around the world including Asia. It is a means to connect politicians, political party supporters, activists, and the parties themselves. The advent of Internet cafes and email has greatly enabled the integration of global communication. At the same time, the emerging cyber culture of the Internet challenges the very notions of sovereignty, government, political parties, civil society, and conventional politics in China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The political context of Internet USAge differs throughout the Asia-Pacific region, but certain concerns are common to the role the Internet plays in the region. Will the Internet create a political culture that undermines conventional politics? And will Internet USAge in Asia result in the creating of local cultural content, strengthen regional diversity and enhance political maturity? To answer the questions, the paper will present some cases of the Internet's impact to politics in China, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Then, the paper will describe some of the similarities between the cases. Finally it will conclude with some conceptual ideas as to what Indonesia can learn about Internet-based politics from these cases

An Overview on the Internet in the Learning Context

The Internet might have been manypeople's best friends but there are also people who are still in the introduction stage of using the Internet. The Internet might become hype for them that they are not aware yet of the potentials and the harms lurking behind the glitters of the Internet. Thus, this paper is meant to provide general information on both the positive and negative side of the Internet in terms of educational context.Worshipping the Internet or having a skeptical position toward the Internet is two extremes that should be avoided. The Internet users should be critical and wise in using this piece of technology. In other words, they need to become 'informed' users of the Internet. Therefore, some possible solutions are also presented in this paper in order to make the best use of its potentials while focusing every effort to minimize its harms

Modeling the Internet

We model the Internet as a network of interconnected Autonomous Systems which self-organize under an absolute lack of centralized control. Our aim is to capture how the Internet evolves by reproducing the assembly that has led to its actual structure and, to this end, we propose a growing weighted network model driven by competition for resources and adaptation to maintain functionality in a demand and supply ``equilibrium''. On the demand side, we consider the environment, a pool of users which need to transfer information and ask for service. On the supply side, ASs compete to gain users, but to be able to provide service efficiently, they must adapt their bandwidth as a function of their size. Hence, the Internet is not modeled as an isolated system but the environment, in the form of a pool of users, is also a fundamental part which must be taken into account. ASs compete for users and big and small come up, so that not all ASs are identical. New connections between ASs are made or old ones are reinforced according to the adaptation needs. Thus, the evolution of the Internet can not be fully understood if just described as a technological isolated system. A socio-economic perspective must also be considered.Comment: Submitted to the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference NEXT-SigmaPh

Organizing the Internet

This paper examines XML and its relationships with SGML (Standardized General Markup Language) and HTML (HyperText Markup Language). It examines the importance of metatags and the XML Document Type Definition (DTD) and proposed alternatives. It looks at the differences between the two types of XML data: “valid” and “well-formed” documents

Plagiarism On The Internet

This article addresses the problem of plagiarism on the Internet and offers practical guidelines and instructions for dealing with that problem. While technology-based tools such as plagiarism detection services are discussed, primary focus is given to stopping plagiarism before it occurs. Prevention ahead of time is considered far better than detection later in time. Good prevention techniques involve educating the faculty in terms of how they can better plagiarism-proof\u27 their assignments, and encouraging the administration to create academic plagiarism policies, academic integrity codes, and Christian academic policy statements. This article developed from a workshop presentation made at the 2002 Association of Academic Christian Librarians\u27 Annual Conference