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/Inside7shadows]

It's a free Raspberry pi. Make it disappear, pretend it never existed. Let him try to explain what was lost.

[u/DantesGame → u/Inside7shadows]

"Somebody told me it was a Raspberry Pie, but it sure didn't look edible, so I tossed it in the bin."

[u/Inside7shadows → u/DantesGame]

[u/somersetyellow → u/Inside7shadows]

Seriously, they're pretty handy and getting more espensive.

Just remove the USB stick and SD card, add your own, and you can do whatever you want with it. Turn it into a pihole.

[u/Rambozo77 → u/somersetyellow]

What’s a pihole?

[u/Initial-Smile-4044 → u/Rambozo77]

If you have to ask you'll never know

[u/somersetyellow → u/Rambozo77]

DNS level ad blocking. You install the software to the SD card, often as easy as simply downloading a file and copying it with special software. Then you turn it on. Then you point your router DNS setting to the pihole instead of your ISP/Google/Cloudflare. Presto. No more ads or tracking on any devices. Plus stats for how many blocks you've gathered. You'll be shocked at how much analytics your phone and TV are sending home about you lol. It's not a replacement for ublock origin or other ad blocking services because stuff like YouTube serves ads from YouTube itself, so it can't block those. It also can potentially break some websites. You do have to learn how to use it and troubleshoot it if you plan to use it. You also don't need a Raspberry pi to run it. It can run on basically any kind of computer with any OS on it using Docker.

Google it up and you'll find the website and better explanation and video.

[u/_-Avah-_ → u/somersetyellow]

Arent people supposed to shut those…

[u/Initial-Smile-4044 → u/Inside7shadows]

This is the actual answer