Terry Elliott's List: 1. SNS/AUP

• “Social networking was a new playground for spammers,” explained David Poellhuber, president of Zerospam, a provider of professional e-mail filtering services. “It offered them a fresh crop of targets — mostly young people, tech-savvy people [who are] perhaps not so security-conscious.”
• The fact is that the digital natives are probably more lax than the analog natives on privacy protection.”
• “They have to use fake invites, they have to create fake profiles — they even have to use phishing techniques to get the user credentials and then actually take over the compromised accounts,” Poellhuber said. “But in the end, the reward is quite good because, since social networking is based on trust, they might very well have a larger response rate than they have with the traditional techniques.”

• So what can students and universities do to ensure everyone enjoys a safe social networking experience?

  “The answer lies far more in education than anything else,” Poellhuber said. “A lot of this has to do with helping the users behave properly.”
• you should be aware of the security features available on sites such as Facebook. For example, you can change your privacy settings to limit the visibility of your online profiles to approved members. Additionally, you should try to avoid publishing your e-mail address
• "How much trust can you put into a 700-people network? As it grows larger, I think the trust goes lower," Poellhuber said
• Educational institutions should be broadcasting these guidelines as effectively as possible, but the IT community also holds responsibility. 

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    1. Create lab hours that are supervised 
    2. Have set hours where the ports are wide open