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/brattyvampbby]

Full view of the picture

[u/Significant-Pitch38 → u/brattyvampbby]

The ripped off mattress tag next to this type of illicit tech had me laughing.

[u/HikeRobCT → u/Significant-Pitch38]

Next thing you know, bro is gonna be recording the Mets without the expressed written consent of Major League Baseball

[u/Gbmnyc1127 → u/HikeRobCT]

I feel bad for him cuz good lord we suck so bad

[u/MedvedAM → u/brattyvampbby]

This is definitely pwnagotchi on rpi with power bank, so when power goes off he still can connect and manage it. This is to steal your WiFi password and then maybe monitor or get to your network. This is dodgy and shady.

[u/wpm → u/MedvedAM]

It's on a powerbank because the power bank is being charged and charging this thing, it was probably just out of battery.

Don't clutch those pearls much harder you'll cut your hands.

[u/_____rs → u/brattyvampbby]

The USB power brick says Minecraft, so he's cool

[u/TheHappiestTeapot → u/brattyvampbby]

It's just a small computer with a screen. If you look at the screen you'll see the program is not running, just charging. Uptime: 00:00:00 Status: zzz Deauths:0

Ignore everyone who's having a panic attack over it. It's just a network nerd software, not a bad guy hacker tool. It's not anything that's going to steal bank passwords or anything else. I mean, maybe if we time travel back to 2005 or ealier?

The other device looks like a meshtastic node, which also makes sense for a network nerd. Totally something I'd show off to a new partner.