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Acceptable Use Policy
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Your Responsibilities
AIT provides you Internet access and computing
facilities and services.
You are responsible for effective, lawful and
ethical use of these resources.
This Acceptable Use Policy covers the Internet
access, computer facilities and services
available for free in classes, laboratories,
meeting rooms and all academic area of the
campus.
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Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
• Regulations to ensure proper use of Institute’s
Internet and computing facilities/services by
users
• Available at
http://www.ait.asia/it_committee/aup
• Compulsory acceptance of the agreement
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AUP: Responsible use
• Ensure proper use and fair sharing of limited
capacity of Internet/computing resources
• Protect privacy
• Uphold laws and common ethics
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AUP: Proper use
• For academic and research activities only
Schedule high volume download at night time
• Not for entertainment or personal use
Downloading and viewing entertainment, game,
Internet phone
• Not for commercial activities
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AUP: Protect privacy
• Use your own user authentication
• Do not give your account to others
Logout every time you finish accessing internet
from a computer:
• Popup logout window
• AIT main webpage -> webmail -> Logout from
AITNet
https://auth-gw.ait.ac.th/auth/logoutpage.pl
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AUP: Observe laws
• Do not attempt to read, copy, modify mails or
data of other people
• Do not carry out unlawful/illegal activities on
Internet (Thai Computer Criminal Act BE 2550)
• Observe copyright law (e.g. use only licensed
software/resources, do not infringe on any
intellectual property, do not download illegal
programs and resources)
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AUP: Observe common ethics
• Decent, polite, no harassment nor intimidation
• Uphold the good name of the Institute
• No private or commercial announcement to any
mailing list
• No anonymous or faked email and Web
board/posting
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AUP: Disciplinary action
Top users are being closely monitored
Upon infringement:
• Official warning
• Temporary or permanent suspension of account
and network access
• Further disciplinary action, including expulsion
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Unrestricted Internet Access
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Unrestricted Internet Access
• In campus residential area
Automatic and compulsory in every dorms
• Private Internet services with a cost
400 baht/month, charged with your rental
ADSL like at 10 Mbps
One connection per room
• Use your AIT email account to create UIA
account
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Unrestricted Internet Access
• For any usage you like
No Acceptable Use Policy
• But you must follow the law of the land
Ex: no illegal download of copyrighted material
Four months exclusion in case of infringement
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Unrestricted Internet Access
• Beware of misconfigured devices:
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Share your connection with a router
Install WiFi access
AIT helpdesk can helps you with configuration
Misconfiguration cause disruption
One month exclusion if you cause disruption to
others
• For details:
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A word about security
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A word about security
• AIT is well protected
– anti-viruses
– anti-spam
• suspect material is filtered out
• But you need to remain careful all the time
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Phishing
• Major threat is phishing, it is sophisticated
• Use caution, ask yourself:
– do you know the sender?
– does the sender uses language?
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does he usually send you this sort of message?
does the sender use that signature?
why the sender is sending you this file/message?
do you trust the sender to be actively looking for
viruses?
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A rule of thumb
• AIT helpdesk will never, ever, ever, under no
circumstance, ask you to send your password
by email.
• Never.
• Ever.
• They will not ask you to connect to some
strange web page.
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A word of advice
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