IS home Appropriate Use Policies (AUPs) First of all, let's not rule out common sense - most abusive situations are obvious.  Ignorance of the rules is not an excuse.  These links to policy information are not necessarily complete. The UCD ITS Department has several computer/network use policies: general Appropriate Use Policy (AUP) disposal of hardware fiscal complex passwords secure computing secure mail VPN webmastering department web servers. UCD has administrative policies, some of which may apply to computer use. UC Boulder's ITS department offers guidelines that largely apply to UCD employees and students. CU Systems has computer-related policies that apply to all campuses: copying software standards graphics e-mail use of computer facilities The state and federal governments most likely have policies that apply to computer use.  For instance, the State of Colorado's Office of Innovation and Technology has published several papers regarding proper computer use, and of course HIPAA is a big concern here.   The easiest ways to attract unwanted attention are to: send a message of a personal nature to campus-wide mailing lists (a.k.a. HSC-Announce) - your opinion on a hot topic, or promotion of an outside company; use state resources - email, desktop, work time, web space - for anything but university business; trigger an e-mail virus; compromise the security of the campus net; participate in an e-mail chain letter.

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