How to Contact Medawar

 

This procedure is only for things which are too important or too dangerous for the normal comments section. If you just want to vent, leave a normal comment.

 

Firstly, if you don't already have a free Protonmail.com account, create one.

Make sure you keep a note (just for yourself) of the address, log-in details etc!

Enable the advanced logging option, so that Protonmail.com will log the IP of anyone accessing your account. Other security settings are up to you, of course: do not use any which you cannot cope with, though. (Protonmail.com offers security options which only really work for highly-computer-literate people.) Check the log fairly regularly. If there's an IP which isn't yours, make a note of it and change your password.

Secondly, post a comment here on Medawar's Cornflakes, preferably starting with the words "secure communication, do not publish" and containing your new Protonmail.com email address. You should receive (may take a day or two and bear in mind that there might be a time-zone difference) a message from Medawar's Protonmail.com account (it's at its most secure when communicating between two accounts on the same platform) establishing communications. Once this has been done and messages have been exchanged, Medawar will delete your comment without it ever being published and without anyone without access to Medawar's accounts being able to see it. If you post a comment whilst logged in to Gmail, it can't be seen from that account unless Medawar publishes it, so this can get you out of a hole where someone snoops on your Gmail or whatever.

Thirdly, send any suspect IPs that access your Protonmail account to Medawar, preferably with a note of when (say what time zone the time is in!) and how much damage may have been done. Be careful about sending screenshots, because they might contain information that is private to you.