I’ve heard back from the boys at AIT. The lowdown, in pertinent part:

For AFS (which is what your home directory is on) ... [w]hat matters is what the AFS acl [see section 4.1 of PDF] (access control list) says for that directory. ... You had system:anyuser rlidwka on your home directory and all sub-directories, which means that any user had full rights on any directory in your home. I've removed all of those.

How my ACL was switched to the ‘rape me’ setting, I don’t know. (Neither does AIT — there’s no way to check, and the user [32766] who “owned” homepage.html doesn’t exist.) However, I do thank “A.J.” for bringing it to my attention. Oh, and B-don.

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