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+# Situation-Room - Now and Tasks for future improvements
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+> This Document contains tasks and suggestions for future improvements and additional features. There are some technical details that are included in this document for deeper understanding of the application.
+
+- [Situation-Room - Now and Tasks for future improvements](#situation-room---now-and-tasks-for-future-improvements)
+  - [Future tasks and suggestions](#future-tasks-and-suggestions)
+    - [Journalist E-Mail verification](#journalist-e-mail-verification)
+    - [Extend journalist profile to help build trust for activists](#extend-journalist-profile-to-help-build-trust-for-activists)
+    - [Extend Real-Time Updates in the application](#extend-real-time-updates-in-the-application)
+    - [End-to-end encryption for real-time messaging service](#end-to-end-encryption-for-real-time-messaging-service)
+    - [Add trust-score for activist to rate his liability](#add-trust-score-for-activist-to-rate-his-liability)
+  - [Technical insights](#technical-insights)
+    - [Used technology](#used-technology)
+      - [Frontend](#frontend)
+      - [Backend](#backend)
+      - [Database](#database)
+    - [Application setup](#application-setup)
+
+## Future tasks and suggestions
+
+### Journalist E-Mail verification
+
+Journalist should be required to verify their E-Mail-Address. This prevents spam and untrustworthy journalist-profiles.
+
+The E-Mail-Verification can go even further and checks if the E-Mail-Address is associated with a known newspaper or news agency.
+
+### Extend journalist profile to help build trust for activists
+
+Journalists should have the possibility to extend their profile with additional information such as their professional social media account, links to past news-articles or a short bio.
+
+This additions help activists build trust in journalists and can check if they want to share the information with them.
+
+### Extend Real-Time Updates in the application
+
+At the moment, real-time updates are provided for our messaging service. The real-time capability can or should be extended all over the application to improve user experience. This would include new posts, updates on posts, new chats and new comments.
+
+> _**Technical hint**: Real-time messaging is implemented using `websockets` and the library `signalR` provided by Microsoft_
+
+### End-to-end encryption for real-time messaging service
+
+Implement end-to-end encryption to secure all messages. The system must consider that users might be logged in on multiple devices. As a second step, extend the functionality to allow users to directly verify their contact's encryption key (for example, by scanning a QR code). This will ensure the connection is secure and prevent any "man-in-the-middle" attacks.
+
+### Add trust-score for activist to rate his liability
+
+A key feature is that activists can remain anonymous, but this makes it hard for journalists to evaluate if an activist is a reliable source. To solve this, journalists should have the ability to "vouch for" an activist after a positive interaction. Each vouch from a journalist will contribute to a visible trust score on the activist's profile, helping other journalists identify credible sources without forcing the activist to reveal their personal information.
+
+## Technical insights
+
+### Used technology
+
+The Situation-Room application is splitted into three main parts:
+
+- Frontend (the view of the user)
+- Backend (Implemented Business-logic)
+- Database (Data-storage)
+
+#### Frontend
+
+The frontend is build using the [Vue.js](https://vuejs.org) JavaScript library. Vue.js is configured to use Typescript for logical operations and Vuejs-Markup for defining the user-interface.
+
+#### Backend
+
+The backend holding the business-logic is written in .NET C#. The backend is designed to be a WebApi and it's endpoints are exposed to the internet.
+
+It uses Entity Framework Core for Database queries and provide the functionality for real-time messaging over `signalR`-WebSockets.
+
+#### Database
+
+The Database is considered to be a Microsoft SQL Server Database, encapsulated in a Docker-Container.
+
+### Application setup
+
+All of the three parts of our application are encapsulated as docker containers.
+
+In addition the the previous mentioned containers are two more:
+
+- nginx reverse proxy
+- CertBot for SSL certificates
+
+All these containers are hosted on a virtual server (Ubuntu Server OS) in a german data-center.