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| Computer Use Policies | Improper use of CSE and other UW computers and networks can get you into trouble. It is your responsibility to know the rules. C&C has produced an excellent description of the rules, laws and ethics surrounding use of computing services on campus. (Their information is naturally slanted toward use of C&C central facilities, but federal and state laws, and state and UW policies described in those pages apply to all CSE departmental computing facilities as well.) |
| CSE Lab Usage Guidelines | Unlike all the public labs on campus, there is nobody assigned to sit in our instructional labs to monitor usage or behavior. Instead, we rely on the fact that the lab is for CSE students only, and that we're all adults. We count on YOU to maintain decorum. Please take a few minutes to review these guidelines for usage in CSE Instructional Labs. |
Guest Accounts 
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The criteria for a CSE computer account to be considered a Guest Account. |
| Ethics and Computing | A set of resources about Ethics and Computing. It's real, and it matters. Please take some time to peruse this information. |
| Use of Department Equipment | New Internet scams pop up all the time. Use of Department equipment cannot result in tangible personal gain. Here is one example of misuse of department equipment. |
| Restrictions on Use of Email by Faculty & Staff | There are specific legal restrictions on the use of email by UW faculty and staff using University equipment, summarized in this document, which includes links to the legislation itself. |
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Network Monitoring
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We are watching network traffic, but usually we're asleep at the wheel. Follow this link to find out exactly what we're keeping an eye on when we wake up. |
| Web Crawler Policy | Even if legitimate, your web crawler may set of (false) alarms at other sites, create concern, and potentially result in risk or liability to the University. If you launch a web crawler, you must abide by the CSE Web Crawler Policy. |
| CSE Web Privacy | About logs of web requests and user-tracking cookies. |
| Protect Your Computer! | Be Safe! There are a number of things YOU need to do in order to protect your computer. Some protective measures are semi-automated, but you still need to have a heightened awareness about the potential threats that can make your life miserable, and threaten the security of others on the network. Virus scanning; Windows Updates; extra caution when installing servers; great suspicion of all email attachments; spyware. In truth, it's pretty easy. But you DO have to pay attention. |
| Home Machines & Laptops | You need to do all those things on your home machine, and on laptops, and any machine that is not more-or-less permanently connected to the CSE netowrk. The McAffee Virus Scannr is free for UW faculty, students and staff personal machines. |
| Virus Hoaxes | Beware! Viruses are real. But if you happen to receive an email warning about a virus, it might just be a hoax. Read this before you help perpetuate it. |
| SpamBuster | Relief at last! We have implemented the fabulous SpamAssassin spam filter in a global way, so that (virtually) all incoming CSE mail is scanned and tagged with a "spam score". You may elect to have your incoming junk mail quarantinned, and you can adjust your spam threshold (the score at which the mail is identified as spam.) It's not perfect, but then, we don't live in a perfect world. But it's actually pretty effective. (Don't believe it? Check the Spam Statistics!) |
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Junk Email and the State |
Information from the State Attorney General's office on junk email (aka SPAM),
including a way to file an official complaint. Washington State's
so-called "anti-spam" law (the nation's first), does not actually
prohibit spam mail, but it does make it illegal to send unsolicited
email mssages with false information in the header, or with a false or
misleading subject line. The law covers mail sent to any computer
located in Washington state, or to a Washington state resident. The
burden is placed on the sender to know where their email messages will
go. The impact on UW students and staff is not known yet, but this new
law clearly makes it important to protect your password, so someone
doesn't use your account to send unsolicited "spam" email, and
get you into trouble! See the related
Seattle
Times article (3/26/98).
You may also be interested in checking out the Coalition Against Unsolicited Email (CAUCE) web site, and the junk-email page of the Center for Democracy and Technology. |
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Junk Email and the Feds |
An FTC publication on the growing problem of unsolicited email and fraud. What to do when you receive a piece of unsolicited email with an offer that sounds too good to be true. See also this FTC press release on the topic. |
| Cardkey Access | Your UW ID card is used to gain entry to all CSE Instructional Laboratories, and to Sieg Hall at night. Don't forget to have your building pass with you if you are in any lab after the building closes! (Building hours are posted at the outer doors.) |
| Ergonomics | If you are experiencing pain or discomfort using a computer in your office, a perosnal consulation can be arranged to help address the problems. There are often some very simple things that can be done. But don't delay -- these problems are much easier to deal with early! |
| Administering Your Own Unix System | Unix systems are prone to breakins. It's a fact of life, and it's getting worse. And once a single system in our network is breached, it makes all the others more vulnerable. Keeping up with all the security patches is a pain. For that and other reasons, we recommend against administering your own Unix system. But if really need to do it yourself, this document describes the guildelines. |
| Dual Booting | Thinking about running a dual-boot machine (NT and Unix)? It carries all the same issues as administering your own Unix system (see previous item), but with additional maintenance issues. Read this document before proceeding! |
| UNIX GWS Usage | Need some UNIX cycles on the grad workstations? Here's the usage guidelines. Read this before launching your big job on someone else's desktop machine. |
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