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Helicopter hovers over me as I browse internet on roof

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So I was here just chilling on the roof of my cousins house with a beefy high-gain WiFi antenna and my laptop, browsing the LTT forums while doing other personal stuff (moving databases and various project files to and from my server), as well as watching YouTube. The internet connection is so disgustingly slow ('4G' router) that I have the videos buffering and various other uploads happening while I get on with other things.

 

A few minutes later, a fully blacked out helicopter starts hovering over my location and does so for the period of time that I'm there, reason unknown. For all I know it could be full of hackers trying to crack the WiFi AP password or using binoculars etc trying to see what I'm doing. Pointless because my laptop screen is almost impossible to see from above, and I was doing all my transfers over an SSL connection.

 

So they hover over me for about 20-30 minutes, circling to and from at a questionable height. I decided to return indoors as it was getting cold anyway, and guess what? As soon as I get up and go in, the helicopter flies off. The area was completely quiet before and after the helicopter came, with no obvious signs of criminal activity. There are no back alleys around here either, so I highly doubt the helicopter was following a suspect on the ground.

 

If the helicopter was 'spying' on me (or at least attempting to) what gives them the right to do that? Anyone can sit on a roof and use their phone no problem, but as soon as a laptop and a WiFi antenna is involved they decide to 'take a closer look'? The fact that my cousin's WiFi is just a 4G box could be one of the reasons that they came to my location, as I've been sending (encrypted) data to and from my server in large quantities throughout the day. This is quite disturbing that they've gone to extra lengths to come to my location possibly attempting to intercept private and personal data. If governments think this is acceptable(without valid reason) this is absolutely atrocious.

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On 6/22/2016 at 10:05 AM, trag1c said:

It's completely blown out of proportion. Also if you're the least bit worried about data gathering then you should go live in a cave a 1000Km from the nearest establishment simply because every device and every entity gathers information these days. In the current era privacy is just fallacy and nothing more.

 

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LOL must be some rich people trying to scare you or something. 

 

Or maybe @Flyguygamer learned how to fly an helicopter and found you :D

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The government does not use black helicopters.

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It may have been the high-gain antennae that threw them off. I know people who have gotten into a lot of trouble by trying to sniff data from a wide range of networks.

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For all I know it could be full of hackers trying to crack the WiFi AP password

Why the actual fuck would "hackers" go as far as getting a helicopter so they can fly over your house and try to crack your wifi? what benefit would that be over just driving close to your house or sneaking through the woods behind your house or whatever. And why would they want your wifi anyway? Please kindly remove the tin foil from your noggin and go back to watching youtube videos.

 

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i wouldn't be surprised if you were in the US but UK... mh...

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There are easier ways to spy than that.

Stop with the stupidity people.

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LOL must be some rich people trying to scare you or something. 

 

Or maybe @Flyguygamer learned how to fly an helicopter and found you :D

Or maybe he found you and brought you back to the forums. :P

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The government does not use black helicopters.

The people behind the goverment use black helos, maybe it was a chemtrail helicopter and his signal blocked them from changing all our minds ?

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The people behind the goverment use black helos, maybe it was a chemtrail helicopter and his signal blocked them from changing all our minds ?

 

More likely it was some wealthy person looking for properties, or a surveyor doing his job. This government conspiracy bull crap drives me nuts, mainly because the people who believe it all are to thick to comprehend normal sense.

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So one thing... SSL Means nothing It can be cracked. It's a preventative measure but so are condoms. If you put one on your ear it does no good. If SSL is set up incorrectly it does no good. Also the government wouldn't use a helicopter to spy on you. First off you have to be on a STL (Suspected Terrorism List). BTW there are satellites that can read your texts... from your screen. This is actually, one of the reasons, why some military bases decades ago put visors over outdoor keypads.

 

On another note, It's probably a training flight and the Student pilot has to maintain a certain elevation over various terrains, like jagged roofs and such.

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learn morse code and signal the pilot some happy messages with a laser light. they'll love you for it

 

 

please don't its illegal.

and it's not a misdemeanor. It's a full fledged federal crime.

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More likely it was some wealthy person looking for properties, or a surveyor doing his job. This government conspiracy bull crap drives me nuts, mainly because the people who believe it all are to thick to comprehend normal sense.

I was sarcastic, obviously there is another reason behind it, maybe an old pilot that thought he saw something crazy, or things you wrote

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So one thing... SSL Means nothing It can be cracked. It's a preventative measure but so are condoms. If you put one on your ear it does no good. If SSL is set up incorrectly it does no good. Also the government wouldn't use a helicopter to spy on you. First off you have to be on a STL (Suspected Terrorism List). BTW there are satellites that can read your texts... from your screen. This is actually, one of the reasons, why some military bases decades ago put visors over outdoor keypads.

 

On another note, It's probably a training flight and the Student pilot has to maintain a certain elevation over various terrains, like jagged roofs and such.

 

If someone does 'gain access/break into' to my SSL connection, does the fingerprint change? That's the only way that I've been validating my SSL connections up until now, by manually checking the fingerprint.

 

I also like your viewpoint on the pilot possibly under training, I wasn't thinking like that at all

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On 8/27/2015 at 10:09 AM, Drixen said:

Linus is light years ahead a lot of other YouTubers, he isn't just an average YouTuber.. he's legitimately, legit.

On 10/11/2015 at 11:36 AM, Geralt said:

When something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

On 6/22/2016 at 10:05 AM, trag1c said:

It's completely blown out of proportion. Also if you're the least bit worried about data gathering then you should go live in a cave a 1000Km from the nearest establishment simply because every device and every entity gathers information these days. In the current era privacy is just fallacy and nothing more.

 

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If someone does 'gain access/break into' to my SSL connection, does the fingerprint change? That's the only way that I've been validating my SSL connections up until now, by manually checking the fingerprint.

 

I also like your viewpoint on the pilot possibly under training, I wasn't thinking like that at all

There is only one system that I know of that can even do this. What all happens I honestly don't know, but what I do know is you won't know. And this system cost 1.85 million per receiver.

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