That’s a very good question JB. My password is long and an alpha-numeric. But if some bloke with aspurger’s can hack into NASA, who knows what is safe anymore.
Since my desktop ‘fell over’ I have been using my lodger’s laptop, who is an ex GF, and my own smart phone. But she’s a good egg and I could trust her with my life! That aside, she wouldn’t know how to hack sausage with a machete’. (Sorry Maria).
So then, I went onto using her laptop and her user name, instead of as a guest, to access my Googlemail. My mistake but it’s a follow-on from when I have had to install software for her over the years and I have never had a problem until this.
So no big deal, I thought, but when she goes on she can see what emails I have because Google has put some mysterious icons there; Gmail and Tony+ which shows all my photos. (Good job I've led a clean life). I didn’t have them anywhere else and I still don’t know how to get rid of them, but no matter because even if she was both malevolent and knew what to do, she still wouldn’t know my DIYnot password. Also, I don’t know what’s happened to my desktop but I cannot get on as me; only as a guest or someone else. So it’s all very fishy.
But lastly, and most significantly, whatever happened literally happened before my eyes. As I say, my original post was okay and was from me, as me, but as I pressed to action the 'edit' the screen ‘blinked’.
I didn’t think anything of it until I noticed “last edited by daffy1” and when I looked up at who posted it I saw this new name but with my edited post.
Nothing’s ever happened to me like this before, it’s got me flummoxed. It’s certainly nothing I deliberately tried to do and I did not type anything by way of another or new user name. It
has got me worried that there is a hacker or something. Identity theft is very worrying, if that's what it is.
If it's happened once could it, or something else like it, happen again. Not good..
