Policy Guidelines

Skylab.org offers a technical service to people for the furtherance of art and technology, and is a resource shared by many people, all equally deserving of respect, dignity, and privacy. To that end, we would ask that those who share skylab.org follow a few simple behavioral guidelines when using the provided services. If you think before acting and ask when in doubt, you’ll likely find yourself following these points naturally. Please do read them, bear them in mind, and don’t hesitate to ask questions when you’re in doubt about what is reasonable.

Policy violations are actively monitored and will result in account removal.

When requesting an account, you are expected to have read and agreed to the policy, and you will receive a very low-traffic, plain-text newsletter containing important technical information, policy changes, project status updates, and financial information. These emails will be sent to your @skylab.org address.

(Un)acceptable Use Policy

Skylab.org provides personal accounts for noncommercial use.

Skylab.org does not tolerate any malicious, abusive or illegal behavior by its users. In particular, the following activities constitute a policy violation:

Cracking or performing DoS attacks against the skylab.org infrastructure
Cracking or performing DoS attacks against other entities on the Internet
Interfering with other users or with the skylab.org’s infrastructure
Sending unsolicited or bulk email messages (spam)
Hosting illegal material
Hosting of fraudulent web pages (e.g., phishing)

Network scanners (such as nmap) and scanners for security vulnerabilities or exploits are proscribed regardless of their intended purpose. If you want to use our servers to perform specific security audits against your own equipment, you must contact us about it.

Undesired Activity

There are other activities that are not strictly illegal or abusive, but still are not desired on skylab.org. These are discouraged because they restrict or reduce other users’ abilities to make use of the service or because they are counter to the intended purpose of the project. These activities include:

Commercial use of your account
Hosting material that promote racism, discrimination or intolerance
Hosting of pornography
Running permanently active processes (background processes are OK as long as they naturally terminate after execution)
Running IRC bots or bouncers
Unnecessary intensive use of CPU, memory or network
Unnecessarily frequent or demanding cronjobs
Use of the system as a transparent proxy

Privacy Policy

User privacy is considered important and is respected. Your activities and data are your own business, in particular:

We will never sell or pass on user data on to third parties
We will not read or search your incoming or outgoing mail other than to protect you from spam

Unfortunately providing an open environment also attracts people who intend to misuse and abuse the system, so we can’t provide anonymity for users. This means that quite a few things are logged, and that if this use policy is violated, logs and user data may be used as evidence of incident.

Remember that privacy should not be delegated, so it’s your duty to ultimately protect your data and your communications. Encryption tools and anonymity networks are at your disposal.

Service Guarantee

Skylab.org does not guarantee any level of availability, reliability or data protection. However, efforts are made to provide quality service, making our best to provide a robust, secure and stable Unix operating system.

Credits

Thanks to ninthfloor.org for letting us steal their policy. This is mostly a copy of their policy with a few minor changes.