They did a lot of online correspondence; they were good at it.
Naturally, having dated for more than a year, they spent time together, in person, whenever they could. Their jobs however, had him… him being hugo.22Z@gmail.com …working some distance from the town, and this meant that he saw her… her being h.c.posy17@yahoo.com …working as a hotel receptionist on night duty, only when he was back in town. Generally speaking, their one-on-one personal time didn’t happen as often as they would have liked. This also meant that the internet was used extensively, but it was not without risk. This became apparent when the troublemaking hacker, a nasty piece of work, who went by p.l.98.2.thisguy@supamail.com, decided to cause problems for the pair. He knew them well enough that he could enter their space, using an assumed name, and stir things up a little.
At first, pretending to be someone who worked alongside of ‘Hugo’, he messaged ‘Posy’ to say that he wasn’t getting productivity bonuses for doing extra work, but suggested that he was drug dealing instead. Then, he intimated to ‘Hugo’ that ‘Posy’ was being less than faithful and was spending time with somebody else while he was away.
What ‘thisguy’ didn’t know was, not only did they use internet regularly to stay in touch, but both had always been pretty savvy on the subject of how the whole thing worked. Figuring out what was going on, they hacked into his system and found enough illegal material on his hard drive to fix the problem.
When members of the police cybercrime unit came knocking on his door with a warrant to take his computer away for analysis, the problem went away.
