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@title[Principles Of Responsible Use Of Project Athena]
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Project Athena is M.I.T@.'s computing facility for education.  It
consists of a networked system of workstations and services, and
includes communication features that offer many opportunities for
members of the M.I.T@. community to share information.  With that
ability to share comes the responsibility to use the system in
accordance with M.I.T.'s standards of honesty and personal conduct.
Those standards, outlined in the M.I.T. Bulletin under Academic
Procedures, call for all members of the community to act in a
responsible, ethical, and professional way.  This note offers
guidelines in applying those standards to use of Project Athena
facilities.

@Majorheading(Intended Use)

The hardware granted to Project Athena, and the software licensed for
that hardware, are intended for educational use, broadly construed, by
members of the M.I.T@. community.  Use of Athena resources by anyone
outside M.I.T@.  requires approval of the Provost, and the sale of
such use is improper.  The use of Athena resources for immediate
financial gain is similarly improper.  Use of Project Athena's
facilities for sponsored research activities that normally would make
use of other M.I.T@.  facilities requires specific authorization of
the Director.

@Majorheading(Privacy and Security)

The operating systems used by Project Athena encourage sharing of
information.  Security mechanisms for protecting information from
unintended access, from within the system or from the outside, are
minimal.  These mechanisms, by themselves, are not sufficient for a
large community in which protection of individual privacy is as
important as sharing.  Users must supplement the system's security
mechanisms by using the system in a manner that preserves the privacy
of others.

For example, users should not attempt to gain access to the files or
directories of another user without clear authorization from the other
user (typically that authorization is expressed by setting file access
permissions to allow public or group reading).  Nor should users
attempt to intercept any network communications, such as electronic
mail or user-to-user dialog.  A shared program should not secretly
collect information about its users.  Personal information about
individuals, which a user would not normally disseminate, should not
be stored or communicated on the system.  Examples of such personal
information are grades or letters of recommendation.

@majorheading(System Integrity)

Actions taken by users intentionally to interfere with or to alter the
integrity of the system are out of bounds.  Such actions include
unauthorized use of accounts, impersonation of other individuals in
communications, attempts to capture or crack passwords or encryption,
and destruction or alteration of data or programs belonging to other
users.  Equally unacceptable are intentional efforts to restrict or
deny access by legitimate users to the system.

@majorheading(Intellectual Property Rights)

Some software and data that reside on the system are owned by users or
third parties, and are protected by copyright and other laws, together
with licenses and other contractual agreements.  Users must abide by
these restrictions.  Such restrictions may include prohibitions
against copying programs or data for use on non-Athena systems or for
distribution outside M.I.T@., against the resale of data or programs
or the use of them for noneducational purposes or for financial gain,
and against public disclosure of information about programs (e.g.,
source code) without the owner's authorization.  It is the
responsibility of the owner of protected software or data to make any
such restrictions known to the user.
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