Publishing Your Web Pages

Tom Kelliher, CS14A

Apr. 25, 1997

Outline:

1. Censorship.

2. Offensiveness.

3. Acceptable use.

4. Passwords.

5. Exercise.

Censorship

Real life examples:

1. ``Condom Country'' link in Other Sites of Interest.

2. Cross-dressing link on a home page.

3. Link from home page to page of an alumnus. Alumnus' page has pornographic image.

4. Disk quotas.

5. Student home pages on ``official'' server.

Offensiveness

1. Is anything from the previous section offensive? To whom?

2. Is this offensive?

3. What about this ?

4. The ``MUD flame'' incident. Retaliation: access denied to entire College.

Questions: Who is the audience? Who judges? Who decides? Who patrols?

Acceptable Use

1. Use guidelines .

2. Account sharing.

3. Anonymizers. Hidden identity/responsibility.

4. Breaking into systems.

5. Sniffing network traffic.

6. Browsing others files. Editing.

7. Firewalls --- protection vs. access.

8. Inadvertent denial of service attacks (mail forwarders).

9. Viruses.

10. Quota circumvention.

11. Commercial use.

Passwords

1. See this .

2. Weak passwords and system security.

3. Consequences of a compromised account:
   1. Damage to your files.

   2. Crimes committed from your account.

   3. Damage to others' files.

   4. Damage to the system.

4. Crack.

Exercise

Finally. Something interesting.

Remember: What you publish is visible to the entire world.