Internet and Computer Safety
If you are in danger, please call
911.
OR
Call Safe Shelter’s 24-hour Crisis Line:
303-772-4422
OR
Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-SAFE
Email is not a safe or confidential
way to talk to someone about the danger or abuse in your life, please
call us instead.
Traditional “corded” phones
are more private than cell phones or cordless phones.
• There are hundreds of ways that computers record everything
you do on the computer and on the Internet.
• If you are in danger, please try to use a safer computer that someone
abusive does not have direct access, or even remote (hacking) access
to.
• It might be safer to use a computer in a public library, at a community
technology center (CTC) www.ctcnet.org
(national directory), at a trusted friend’s house, or an Internet
Café.
• 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 activities – anyone can do it
and there are many ways to monitor.
• Computers can provide a lot of information about what you look at
on the Internet, the emails you send, and other activities. It is not
possible to delete or clear all computer “footprints”.
• If you think you may be monitored on your home computer, you might
consider no home Internet use or "safer" Internet surfing.
Example: If you are planning to flee to
California, don't look at classified ads for jobs and apartments, bus
tickets, etc for California on a home computer or any computer an abuser
has physical or remote access to. Use a safer computer to research an
escape plan.
