Misuse of accounts or violation of the delineated conditions may result in disciplinary action under various University policies. In this context, students are provided with computing resources for carrying out work related to their courses, projects or thesis and should confine the use of the resources to activities related to this work. A moderate amount of personal use of computing resources is acceptable. For example, occasionally sending electronic mail to friends or relatives or offering personal items for sale through a newsgroup such as uw.forsale is an acceptable use of resources. It is inappropriate to use computing resources for commercial activities without making prior arrangements with the Associate Dean for Computing.
Computing resources are to be used only by the person or group to whom the resources are given.
If an account is shared, the owner of the account must assume supervisory responsibility and may be held accountable for the actions of others. It is inappropriate to obtain covert or illicit access to another person's account. The ethical use of University computing resources are governed by UW Policy Number 33, Ethical Behaviour. Unethical conduct using a computer account is inappropriate. Attempting to attain unauthorized access to another's directories or files or in any way attempting to evade system security is considered to be inappropriate behaviour, even if it is for purposes of browsing only and not for acquiring data.