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Technology Safety Tips

Internet and Computer Safety

  • If you are in danger, please try to use a safer computer that someone abusive does not have direct or remote (hacking) access to.
  • If you think your activities are being monitored, they probably are. Abusive people are often controlling and want to know your every move. You don’t need to be a computer programmer or have special skills to monitor someone’s computer and Internet activities – anyone can do it and there are many ways to monitor with programs like Spyware, keystroke loggers and hacking tools.
  • It is not possible to delete or clear all the “footprints” of your computer or online activities. If you are being monitored, it may be dangerous to change your computer behaviors such as suddenly deleting your entire Internet history if that is not your regular habit.
  • If you think you may be monitored on your home computer, be careful how you use your computer since an abuser might become suspicious. You may want to keep using the monitored computer for innocuous activities, like looking up the weather. Use a safer computer to research an escape plan, look for new jobs or apartments, bus tickets, or ask for help.
  • Email and Instant/Text Messaging (IM) are not safe or confidential ways to talk to someone about the danger or abuse in your life. If possible, please call a hotline instead. If you use email or IM, please use a safer computer and an account your abuser does not know about.
  • Computers can store a lot of private information about what you look at via the Internet, the emails and instant messages you send, internet-based phone and IP-TTY calls you make, web-based purchases and banking, and many other activities.

Credits

The information above is from the Safety Net Project run by the National Network to End Domestic Violence (USA).

Safety Net Training in Australia

WESNET had the pleasure of hosting Technology Safety training in Victoria and Tasmania in March 2011. The two-day training was conducted by experts from the USA and organised by WESNET. The training was sponsored by WESNET and the Victorian government and held in Bendigo, Melbourne, Warrnambool and Hobart. The training was rated highly by participants.

WESNET is now planning to establish Australian-based Safety Net trainers and bring it to other States and Territories in the future.

For more information please visit the WESNET site.

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