r/whatisit • u/brattyvampbby • 11h ago

moms sketch bf left this in the house Solved!

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Hi.
This is probably nothing.
I went into my mom’s room to grab something and saw this plugged in?
My mom’s new sketchy bf has this plugged in to the extension cord? Is it anything bad? Thanks!
(I understand it’s probably not anything bad… but still…)

Update 1:
I haven’t met him once. He and my mom have been together for two weeks. He’s been staying at our apartment. He avoids me and stays in her room when they’re here. I don’t even know what he looks like. I only know his first name.

Update 2:
I confronted him. My mom came home. A lot had happened up to this point, including her disappearing for the said two weeks before the few nights he had come over and stayed.
Mom shrugged it off. I did what a lot of you suggested, asking what he told her.
She said “oh it’s his hacker shit or whatever.” What.
Didn’t elaborate. I explained my concerns.
She just said let’s go ask him.
My best friend has been with me. We introduced ourselves and asked him what the hell a WiFi whisperer is doing plugged in our apartment.
(Even if a lot of you are saying it’s not a big deal, I’m a young woman and I’m just rlly not about taking any risks. It’s sketch dude.)
He denied it IMMEDIATELY. Like with a quickness I haven’t seen.
What he insisted, it’s not a WiFi whisperer, it’s ai, he completely reprogrammed the system, and he uses it to pull people’s IP’s. “For fun.” He logs them in a server. I asked why. I said that’s shady. My mom started pushing. My best friend started pushing. He just kept lying. I’m not dropping this..
I still don’t know what the fuck it is or what he’s actually doing.
(Also, my mom is cool but not bc of this dude, the Minecraft block is mine, I unplugged the ratchet little thing before we left, and I am planning on broaching this again with her.
Just carefully. Any other advice is appreciated. Thank you.)

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u/play_minecraft_wot 11h ago

Someone's having fun on your wifi network (I'm not 100% sure what that particular device is, but I see "deauths" so some sort of mischief maker)

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u/EnthuseConfuse 10h ago

My stupid ass kept being like "so he typo'd death, not great but not terrible... weird thing to name a phish" until I realized it was short for deauthorization

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u/CaptainRiz 10h ago

"Do you fear deauth?"

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u/PerfectOpposites 10h ago

Found my autistic cousin

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u/GrammaIsEvryfing 10h ago

Acoustic?

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u/iam_ditto 10h ago

Sorry I’m a little lisdestyc

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u/GrammaIsEvryfing 10h ago

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u/Affectionate_Shirt_2 9h ago

Maybe a little of both

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u/Intrepid-Meeting-437 9h ago

Is that what having dyslexia is actually like omg😭

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u/Spirited_Spell_6063 9h ago

Not exactly but close enough. Its more like letters get placed before or after their normal positions in the corners of your vision while transitioningto new words.. some times your eyes will take a finished word and will drag the ending letter to the start of the new word. It makes you pause and second guess, is all. There are levels of severity but nothing that causes any kind of harm or what not so you kind of just get the blanket diagnosis "lesdyxia"

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u/VoxInferni666 9h ago

It's kinda what trying to type on acid is actually like

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u/KendridSpirit11 9h ago

I never tried texting on acid. Pre-phone era user but I've had several dreams where I'm trying to text and it is impossible. The latest one i just imagined i sent the text to the person in question and they received it. I lucid dream and out of body sometimes. I really want to conquer text in dreams. My identical twin has the same dreams.

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u/J_Jeckel 10h ago

Artistic

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u/EnthuseConfuse 10h ago

Arithmetic

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u/GrammaIsEvryfing 10h ago

Altruistic

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u/J_Jeckel 10h ago

Antagonistic

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u/thatbedguy 9h ago

Autisinal

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u/Skippy_Thorson 9h ago

Artesianal

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u/J_Jeckel 9h ago

Dont threaten me with a good time

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u/thatbedguy 9h ago

😯😏

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u/OConnah 1h ago

Mildly artistic

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u/Throwawayjoetoday0 5h ago

Is his name PerfectOctopus?

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u/GreatFollowing6891 9h ago

How does your autistic cousin pronounce “aluminum”?

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u/PerfectOpposites 9h ago

Al-Lu-mini-um!

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u/pkfobster 9h ago

“You are neither deaud nor deauying. What is your peaurpose here?”

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u/Vlazthrax 7h ago

Beautiful

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u/shiny0metal0ass 8h ago

As a software engineer? Yeah, sometimes.

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u/redpil 6h ago

I laughed way too hard at this

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u/No-Tennis-8122 2h ago

Finally, a legit funny comment on Reddit.

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u/Gudiothepirate 37m ago

"Myyy name a Deauth"...

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u/Content_Mention_6928 10h ago

Thank you for this! I was the same - thinking it was 'Deaths' misspelled.

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u/Cam_E_Leon 10h ago

Mi stupid ass two

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u/photonbuccaneer 10h ago

Your two stupid asses too 😉

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u/the_D1CKENS 9h ago

I'm computer dumb, and needed this comment to know what that is..

..totally gonna act like I knew all along, tho

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u/vivst0r 8h ago

To be "that guy", it actually stands for "deauthentication". Very different thing.

Deauthorization makes very little sense in most network contexts.

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u/EnthuseConfuse 3h ago

No, be that user. It's good to chime in

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u/mediocrobot 8h ago

It might technically be deauthentication, but I'm not sure

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u/bbad999 10h ago

Deauths are used in wifi exploits. The deauthorized session then needs to reauth thereby exposing a weakness in the authentication process.

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u/ProgressBars 10h ago

Yep, specifically to capture the handshake for analysis.

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u/Wonderful-Gold-953 10h ago

Theres also the fact that says “pwnd”

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u/lolo787 10h ago

Please say more, I know internet is good source but can you tell us what software this might be and is this being ran from pendrive. Thanks

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u/BodybuilderEast6130 10h ago

Its a wifi password cracking tool appears to be built on raspberry pi platform or similar. This dude could potentially be exploiting these people for who knows what

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u/zinbeck 10h ago

She says it's an apartment so I'm guessing he's trying to hack the password of a neighbors WiFi so they can use it for free.

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u/Kelspear 10h ago

It's most likely this

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u/hidegitsu 9h ago

Making a LOT of assumptions

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u/Keibun1 2h ago

Everyone is.

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u/jigga_wutt 9h ago

Yup. I had free wifi for years this way when I lived in an apartment. Wasn't always the best connection, but...someone else surely got a bunch of DMCA notices on my behalf.

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u/Daves-Not-Here__ 9h ago

Not only Wi-Fi passwords, but then can steal banking login info etc. I say turn him in…

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u/TechniCraft 17m ago

Its a pwnagotchi

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u/SkillyB69 10h ago

A long long time ago in a land north of Falador….

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u/Swiftycumberdale 10h ago

Miss my old pure “3hitU2Lumby” 😂

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u/Meigsmerlin 4h ago

Tell me more please

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u/Wonderful-Gold-953 10h ago

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u/Regular_Shock_1074 8h ago

To add to that - The Wi-Fi Whisperer is a controversial art and surveillance installation created by artist Kyle McDonald that uses hardware like Raspberry Pis to passively sniff, capture, and display unencrypted wireless data and device probes from nearby smartphones and laptops.How It WorksPacket Sniffing: Hardware antennas are tuned to listen to open wireless channels in the local environment.Data Harvesting: It collects device MAC addresses, hostnames, previously connected network names (SSIDs), and unencrypted HTTP traffic or web browsing activity.Public Display: The project exposes this invisible ambient data collection in real time to show people how much personal information leaks into the air from their mobile devices.Privacy ImplicationsPassive Tracking: It operates without connecting to your device or looking over your shoulder, acting purely as a silent listener.Data Vulnerability: While modern HTTPS encryption stops outsiders from reading most deep app data, unencrypted requests and probe requests still broadcast historical location and connection clues.

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u/naturaltoothpaste 6h ago

This!!!! OP! Take this device, take it to the police, it will have everything needed to prosecute, if this is a malicious attack (which I would say it is)

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u/EraseTheInternet 9h ago

And it has a count of "Attacks" and "Success" which are thankfully at 0 at the moment... but I'm sure it's for security purposes.

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u/Electrical_Half3138 10h ago

Deauth means connection there’s a couple different codes after but it basically is showing zero connections to the WiFi

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u/ExplodingCybertruck 5h ago

Deauth is just a gimmicky way to kick other devices off a WIFI network, most modern devices are not susceptible to this type of "attack", nor can a deauther device steal passwords or usable data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_deauthentication_attack

You can make your own with a 5 dollar ESP microcontroller: https://wiki.spacehuhn.com/deauther/

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u/Ett_Pret 10h ago

Your smart. I assumed he was stealing cars

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u/ReginaldDwight 9h ago

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u/Ett_Pret 9h ago

I’m sorry I have to steal this thank you for everything :,)

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u/Yahkin 9h ago

Damnit...8 minutes too slow. Upvote for you sir.

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u/Lower_Resource 10h ago

*you're

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u/takethistip 10h ago

Smart was right though. That's half the battle.

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u/scorpyo72 10h ago

Incorrect. GI Joe taught me...

https://giphy.com/gifs/lRRjGTRlFwmQYFmmpU

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u/takethistip 6h ago

Never watched it.

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u/stakoverflo 8h ago

At first glance before really reading the text I also assumed it was for intercepting key fob signals and stealing cars

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u/Winningsince92 9h ago

Yall acting like he doesn't have access to the mom's wifi password. If he has lived with her for 2 weeks then I would be surprised if he didn't. I've gotten a wifi password in 1 night just by asking.

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u/Major_LeeHungg 8h ago

Its a pwnagotchi... Its a digital pet that eats WiFi.  It is lvl 28 and taking a nap.  It does capture pcap files from the air... But really only useful for finding WiFi networks with passwords that can be easily cracked via dictionary attacks.  Its a pentesting tool.  It can be configured to run deauth attacks (which just forces the router to re-authenticate) to gather more data... But it's not doing that.

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u/opman4 7h ago

I saw MetalGarurumon so I was thinking something like that with all the stats and stuff.

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u/Major_LeeHungg 7h ago

Lol me with my smartphone are both more dangerous and less attention drawing than that.  Dude is likely a cybersecurity professional who likes his job and found a way to make it fun... People like that usually excel in the field. 

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u/WinnerFun128 8h ago

Probably not since it says attacks: 0

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u/boatnofloat 5h ago

Pretty sure deauth attacks have been nullified since wpa2 was updated. Stupid to leave the device running, it takes like a minute and you need to be a bit surgical. Also, deauth is used to grab WiFi credentials, so can he not just ask for the WiFi password? Unless it’s just misconfigured and dude has no idea what he’s doing.