Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary | 8 January 2011

Your problems solved

issue 08 January 2011

Q. A close friend has married, in later life, a very nosy and mischievous man. She adores him and keeps boasting about what a computer wizard he is. Unfortunately, I have sound reason to believe he has been hacking into my emails and reading them. It was pretty smart of him to work out my password but this he undoubtedly has done. I have nothing to hide but I resent the invasion of my privacy. I don’t want to embarrass my friend by confronting her husband directly. As my own husband says, ‘what grown man in his right mind would bother to hack into a Sloane Ranger’s email account?’ How can I let this man know that we know what he has been doing?

— Name and address withheld.

A. Let’s pretend the man’s name is John Smith. Change your password. If he is the sort of computer nerd you suggest, it will give him a short, sharp shock when he works out that your new password is ‘stopsnoopingjohnsmith’.

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