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"without making an AutoComplete mistake"

Of course for such a high risk relationship it wouldn't have been a big deal to purchase 2 laptops that are only used for this particular communication and nothing else (no web surfing nothing, just to setup an email account to communicate with the other party). That way, no risk of auto complete and can avoid any other traces and be easily destroyed. Doesn't avoid any IP address matching but that can be handled in other ways.

I think that's pretty standard. I have a friend at a much lower level TS position that has 3 separate computers for varying levels of activity.

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