# If you know any "aluminum foil helmet" types

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/if-you-know-any-aluminum-foil-helmet-types/147762>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [August 29, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/if-you-know-any-aluminum-foil-helmet-types/147762 "2019-08-29T20:44:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/if-you-know-any-aluminum-foil-helmet-types/147762/1 "2019-08-29T20:44:40Z")

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… who see conspiracies everywhere, be sure to forward this image to them!  
😉

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/4/7/471e62e8774406f5d9f409bfb928be60cb19c67d.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![PvtPublic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/pvtpublic/32/13089_2.png) [@PvtPublic](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PvtPublic)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/if-you-know-any-aluminum-foil-helmet-types/147762/2 "2019-08-29T22:56:55Z")

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And for everything you didn’t really know you needed to know about aluminum foil deflector beanies (afdb).  
[https://zapatopi.net/afdb/](https://zapatopi.net/afdb/)

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 1:53am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/if-you-know-any-aluminum-foil-helmet-types/147762/3 "2019-08-30T01:53:20Z")

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Reminds me of the early days of the internet. Folks in chat rooms playing to the conspiracy theorists would sometimes play a practical joke, saying “to prevent the gov’t from spying on your computer usage on the internet, press this key sequence” … If you did that it would either lock up the computer, close the browser, or restart the computer.

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**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/if-you-know-any-aluminum-foil-helmet-types/147762/4 "2019-08-30T13:56:33Z")

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Still happens. “How do I…”

“Hit alt-F4 to fix it.”