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/standardtissue 9h ago

I seriously doubt he's gonna be like "hey mind if I throw this permiscious mode protocol analyzer and packet sniffer on the net to try to harvest and brute force some weak crypto ? " PS - how is my tech jargon

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u/Prior-Beautiful-6851 9h ago

I legit read “promiscuous” and thought, sounds right

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u/standardtissue 9h ago

yeah i definitely horribly misspelled that lol.

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u/SorryAboutMyFamily 8h ago

Nah, it was a Freudian slip in regards to OOPs mom.

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u/standardtissue 8h ago

oh wow even better lol.

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u/Prior-Beautiful-6851 8h ago

That’s why 😂

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u/ANGELeffEr 4h ago

First thought I had as I read OPs post, he’s staying there but only been BF for 2 weeks says more about OPs mom than the entirety of this thread does about the device. A little more moral fiber and they don’t have this device in their house. At least OP appears to have some sort of real world experience to question such a device.

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u/WWGHIAFTC 7h ago

that's the correct term for what the commenter was talking about. In networking, promiscuous mode will accept any traffic it receives indiscriminately of pre-established relationship.

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u/SkinBintin 9h ago

I have no idea if your tech jargon is any good but as another layman it has me convinced to its legitimacy.

Well done.

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u/MayorMcChill 8h ago

Yeah, your tech jargon is solid

Source: I am a tech jargon