If you are worried about it, do not keep private, sensitive or personal information on the computer. Make frequent backups, and paper copies of critical data. Furthermore, you should be aware that most data, transmissions and programs on Department computers are University property, and therefore a matter of public record. Finally, the system administrator may alter, view or destroy data, transmissions or programs in the course of performing his or her duties. In all cases, the system administrator will used the least invasive method possible.
Users have a right to use computer and network resources to get their work done.
You may not, through maliciousness, ignorance or neglect, degrade or destroy access to or performance of system resources to other users' detriment. Specifically, you may not monopolize bandwidth, processor cycles, disk space, memory devices, or phone lines. Users have the right to sit down to a working computer. Long running calculations should be run in the background on Unix machines only. Macintosh computers are not meant for long term computation.