Re: Policies around cryptomining?

[Ken Connelly <ken.connelly () UNI EDU>]

Iowa state law (and university policy) prohibit the use of state-owned
resources for personal financial gain. Cryptomining on campus uses the
campus, i.e., state-owned, network and is therefore not permitted. We
keep it low key initially and most of the time there is either an
apology claiming ignorance of policy/law or no response, but the
activity stops.

-ken

On 2/9/21 9:02 AM, Ben Woelk wrote:
> 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,
>
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