I WAS

recently press-ganged into a sort of ‘me-too movement’ when a pop-up on my screen showed my login name and password, and revealed that software had been installed. The camera had been activated when I was viewing pornography, said my hacker. In crude English he said if I wanted the ‘evidence’ destroyed, I had to pay in Bitcoins. I wrote back saying my data had already been stolen – not by some foreign weirdo but allegedly by professional hackers hired by rich Irish business people. And rather than pay them, I hoped they would pay me for stealing my data. My blackmailer has yet to reply.