this situation is simply BEGGING for a practical joke to be played…
send your friend an email from a gmail account you set up with some livid details about something the ‘snooper’ can really sink her teeth into.
this is a chance that doesn’t come by too often. use this gift wisely and prank the snooper.
that’s what i’d do.
may i mention:
hushmail.com/
and as a side note, this is perfect reason why email encryption should always be used on private emails. when i had a corporate job, i always used PGP to encrypt my outgoing emails to family and friends. and had them do likewise. at the very least, set up a gmail account (i like the service, hence the mention) and log into it everytime with
gmail.com - make sure the ‘s’ is there. that’ll log you in with an encrypyed connection. make sure there isn’t a keystroke logger installed on your system. ctrl-alt-del and look at the process window… google the names of all the processes for definitions of what each is if you’re not sure. NEVER EVER EVER EVER use corporate email for personal reasons. it will be read. it will be read. i repeat, it will be read.
“Proofpoint and Forrester Research conducted a recent survey “concerning e-mail security from 406 companies, in the U.S. and the U.K., with more than 1,000 employees. In both regions, 38 percent of respondents said they employed staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound e-mail. In the U.S., 44 percent of companies with more than 20,000 employees said they hire people to snoop on workers’ e-mail. Nearly one in three U.S. companies also said they had fired an employee for violating e-mail policies in the past 12 months and estimated that about 20 percent of outgoing e-mails contain content that poses a legal, financial, or regulatory risk.”” - Sonja Thompson
I have a horrible habit of skimming the details and then putting my 2 cents in.