Re: Policies around cryptomining?

[Michael Tran Duff <mjduff () STANFORD EDU>]

Here's how we handled it at Stanford (i.e., by citing several pre-existing policies):  
https://uit.stanford.edu/news/cryptocurrency-mining

Michael Tran Duff
Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer
Stanford | University IT and Office of the Chief Risk Officer
michael.duff () stanford edu
650-721-3111

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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

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Rochester Institute of Technology

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