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The use of state owned equipment (which is basically
everything in the CSE building and in Sieg Hall) for personal profit
has come up as an issue again recently.
This time, it involves outfits that offer you dollars for surfing, or even just registering with them, or otherwise providing them with a countable, advertising assaultable body. Although they might in fact pay you to do only exactly what you might be doing anyway, and although they might pay you to do what is in fact exactly your department related work, there is a small catch - this is an illegal activity. To be clear, use of state equipment cannot result in tangible personal gain. 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 a very good description of the rules, laws and ethics surrounding the use of computing services on campus (see them here). (Their information is naturally slanted toward use of C&C central facilities, but federal and state laws, as well as the state and UW policies described in those pages apply to all CSE departmental computing facilities as well.) |
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