Just outside Washington, DC, a heavily armored truck, protected by armed guards, rumbles toward the Pentagon. Its cargo is critical to keeping the most sensitive government communications secret. But it’s not what you might expect. That precious cargo is nothing but numbers.
In recent months, government officials in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries have made repeated calls for law-enforcement agencies to be able to access, upon due authorization, encrypted data to help them solve crimes.
In this Web edition of UT Game Changers on The Longhorn Network, Todd Humphreys addresses the current use and future potential of GPS technology.
The security of the system as a whole will be derived from the security of its components, rather than from a single firewall, as is currently the case with most cloud systems.