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24-Hour Crisis Line: 303.772.4422 • Office: 303.772.0432 • P.O. Box 231 • Longmont, CO 80502-0231
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Internet and Computer SafetyIf 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.
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