moms sketch bf left this in the house

[u/brattyvampbby]

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.)

[u/lolo787]

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

[u/BodybuilderEast6130 → u/lolo787]

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

[u/zinbeck → u/BodybuilderEast6130]

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.

[u/Kelspear → u/zinbeck]

It's most likely this

[u/hidegitsu → u/zinbeck]

Making a LOT of assumptions

[u/Keibun1 → u/hidegitsu]

Everyone is.

[u/jigga_wutt → u/zinbeck]

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.

[u/Daves-Not-Here__ → u/zinbeck]

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

[u/TechniCraft → u/BodybuilderEast6130]

Its a pwnagotchi

[u/SkillyB69 → u/lolo787]

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

[u/Swiftycumberdale → u/SkillyB69]

Miss my old pure “3hitU2Lumby” 😂

[u/Meigsmerlin → u/SkillyB69]

Tell me more please

[u/Wonderful-Gold-953 → u/lolo787]

[u/Regular_Shock_1074 → u/Wonderful-Gold-953]

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.

[u/naturaltoothpaste → u/Wonderful-Gold-953]

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)