5.
I'm concerned that my email messages will be read by my abuser.
What can I do?
If you are using an email program such as Outlook and your
abuser has access to your computer, he or she will easily
be able to read your email.
Delete
sensitive emails that you send and receive.
Remember the second
step: after you have deleted a message, go to the Deleted
Mail folder in Outlook, highlight the message and delete it
again. (Be aware that the message may still reside somewhere
on your computer. A trained technician may be able to recover
it.)
| CAUTION:
If you are worried about the privacy of your
email on your home computer, you might want to set up
a free email account for yourself on the web. If you set
up an account with Hotmail
or Yahoo,
for example, your email messages will be stored on the
Hotmail or Yahoo server instead of your own computer.
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To protect your
access to your email account, choose a password that you will
be able to remember, but that will be hard for someone else
to guess. Do not write down the password; you could write
down a clue for yourself to help you remember the password.
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