DO YOU NEED INTERNET SECURITY?

09/29/2011

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 For those of you who have never feared going to the internet for help, please be aware that this is a very real punishable offence for victims from their abuser. 

Computer use can be monitored by the abuser to access email and find out what sites are visited on the internet. 

If you think you are in danger, use safe computers such as at the public library, domestic violence organization or community center.

You can first call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE  (7233), from a phone where the number called is not available to the abuser. 

You cannot know how many ways an abuser can access what you do on the internet. 

For your security, please go to WomensLaw.org.

There you will find information and answers to the questions

“Can the abuser access my email account?”.

“What steps should I take even if I think the abuser does NOT have access to my email account?”,

”What should I do if I think the abuser can access my email account?”,

What should I do if I think the abuser can access my email account?”,

How do I know I am sending email from my account or from the abuser’s account when I click on an email link that I found on a website?”, and

“What should I do if I receive threatening or harassing emails from the abuser?”   

For those of you who do not live like this, go to the site and see how much time and effort and fear and difficulty is involved in just this ONE minute area of a victim’s life. 

I know, Lisa knew, and you should, too.

These are your sisters in womankind.

Take good care of yourself.

Millie
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01/05/2010

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Hello Again, Friends
I'll have to start with an apology to those of you reading this twice.  Yesterday I published what I thought would be a blog and it was a page.  I'm still standing at the door of Classroom Tech Savvy 101.
My purpose is to give you a little bakcground so that you know where I'm coming from  when I write.  My book carries a very serious subject, domestic violence and the murder of my daughter Lisa.  The way I've learned to deal with my tragedy filled life is first to help others and then use humor.
I was born in the  little town of Buchanan, Michigan.  Although I wasn't born to poor black sharecroppers like Steve Martin, I was born to poor white European immmigrants.  Well, not  too poor.
I grew up on a 56 acre farm with woods, ponds, fields, wildflowers, animals and all things Walden and loved it!
My mother died when I was 11 and I was the oldest girl and so became successor to a mother's duties on a farm without not so much as indoor plumbing and hot water.  I'm amazed about it now, but at the time, I guess I thought I should and could so I did.

I'm (gasp!) over 50, but if I weren't I would not have a 20 year overview and interaction with the abuser, victim, the legal system and those charged with dealing with it.  Unfortunately, that's usually the victims and the poor souls designated to try to make changes in a society where these changes are not easily made..

My working life was spent in human resosurces and real estate.  My primary career was in raising my three children and as a homemaker.  Besides losing Lisa, I lost a 17 year old son, Michael in a single car auto accident.  After Lisa's murder by her ex-husband, I singly raised Lisa's two daughtes who were six and ten at the time.  I also spent l2 years as a national victim's advocate.

My reputation for never taking speaker's fee or having to solicit speaking engagements or allowing politicians to use me any more than I could use them preceeds me..  While lobbying and working in the public sector, I needed to be politically correct.  My book, "Who Killed Lana B?"  is not. It's available at www.lulu.com, www.Amazon.com, www.BarnesandNoble.com, as well as other retailers and is also distributed globally. There are many toes stepped on in presenting the facts.

I will sometimes quote statistics, but they will be from government sites, since they are not likely to have an axe to grind.

I will close with a promise to try to keep a positive spin on the issue.   For instance, if I write that the best therapy for a violent stalker rapist is Smith & Wesson, I will be quick to point out that the more humane and life saving way is to deal with it properly from the beginning.

Now I go to send this out to the Great Blogospere where you must catch it some type of skyhook.  When I get a little more savvy, I will post pictures.  In the meantime you can visualize me as a cute petite blond.
Millie
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