- Author: Blaine A. Sullivan
Today I would like to discuss sharing passwords (or passphrases) with other people. There are many issues with sharing your passwords – the first is it is against ANR’s computing policy (as well as the policies of UCOP, UCD, UCB, and UCR). I will go over a few examples of what other people can do with your login information for different systems to demonstrate why password sharing is prohibited.
If you give someone your ANR Portal login information they can send messages via Collaborative Tools that appear to be coming from you. They can also edit SiteBuilder sites that you are an editor of, post to your Blogs, edit your Surveys, and the like. But even more concerning is that they can look at your Reviews, Grant...
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
The other day Dave walked into my office to show me how if someone used a "%" sign in the blogs the text after the percent sign was mangled and not right. This weird anomaly puzzled me as everything else came out correctly. After looking into this a little while I found one of our security filters was mangling the text and needed to be fixed.
You may be asking yourself, "A security filter on a blog why is that needed?" Programmers can be mischievous and enjoy a good challenge of finding ways of doing things that computers were not meant to do. For example, by adding a simple comment with some special coding to a story, comment, blog,...