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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Georgia Tech researchers are developing tools that allow internet service providers (ISPs) to better verify the owner of a network and legitimate traffic paths. As part of a multi-year project funded with a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, researchers will address the Internet identity problem with new protocols such as RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure.) “We know it’s easy to lie on the Internet,” Russ Clark, a senior research scientist in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, said in the statement. “It happens because of a weakness in the trust relationship between routing protocols. Those protocols were not designed to recognize imposters and especially not fake ISPs.”
Read the full article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2015/11/06/redbird-capital-backs-growing-tech-sales-marketing.html
