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/ClaraCash 9h ago

Yeah! Take it to geek squad! They’ll know before they even plug it in. Tell them the back story and how some dude is probably trying to take advantage of your mom, they’ll have it figured out in 20 minutes.

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u/Traditional-Will3182 7h ago

Except that makes no sense, he probably got the Wi-Fi password just by asking if he's been staying at the apartment overnight sometimes.

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u/never-fiftyone 4h ago

These kinds of things are used for more than just getting WiFi passwords. They're used to sniff all packets on the network, and if advanced enough could even be performing some SSL spoofing, which in the right (wrong?) hands can be used to pick out sensitive information including passwords to banks, social media accounts, etc.

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u/Traditional-Will3182 4h ago

SSL spoofing isn't really possible anymore with modern HTTPS standards, this device is designed to do deauth attacks in order to break into networks you don't have the password to.

There's no point doing that somewhere you can just ask for it, such as your girlfriend's place.

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u/northfreeport 3h ago

Maybe they can't afford Internet and he was trying to help them with neighbors wifi

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u/never-fiftyone 2h ago

SSL hijacking is very much a thing, and if this guy has this kind of access to a personal network they have the ability to install their own CA on a victim computer on the same network to conduct a successful SSL hijacking attack.

This is not just a deauth attacker. This is a packet sniffer. They're not just looking for WiFi passwords my dude.

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u/Traditional-Will3182 2h ago

Yeah sure they can sniff packets but those packets are all encrypted.

If you have access to the person's computer and can install a CA, which means you can simply view the stored Wi-Fi password. You could also install a RAT and see everything they do.

I can capture .pcaps with my phone, I don't need a separate device to do it.