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Policies around cryptomining?


From: Ben Woelk <Ben.Woelk () RIT EDU>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 15:02:03 +0000

Hi Everyone,
Are you prohibiting cryptomining by residential students on their own computers? We've had some questions come in about 
how it fits into our code of computer conduct, but I'm interested in your approaches around this. We have concerns from 
the heat generation from the CPU use and the potential for fire, etc.

If you have prohibited it, under what type of policy framework? Infosec? Computer Use? Housing contracts?
Thanks,

Ben Woelk '07, CISSP, CPTC
ISO Program Manager
Information Security Office
Finance and Administration
Rochester Institute of Technology
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