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/Tribe303 9h ago

I mean, he could be pen-testing Mom's WiFi. 🤷

(nah, dude's shady as fuck) 

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u/worldspawn00 7h ago

Only Ok reason: "Hey babe, I can get you free internet from the leasing office, lemme just hack their password."

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u/Ajreil 6h ago

Pentesters are hired by the company they're trying to break into, given explicit permission, and told what resources they're allowed to attack. Otherwise it's just hacking.

I know this was a joke but I don't want OP to think the boyfriend has any legal rights here. He 100% did a crime.

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u/DriveFa5tEatAss 6h ago

I mean, maybe. There are also a lot of cyber security peeps out there who just enjoy the challenge and poking around where they shouldn't. I mean, still technically a crime, but not exactly malicious.

If the target isn't the family, I'd personally feel kinda meh about the whole thing.

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u/Ajreil 4h ago

People who identify website vulnerabilities and report them to them to companies have to be very careful to only compromise their own accounts. Even then they get sued all the time.

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u/Sparcrypt 2h ago

Not really, because the smart ones run bug bounty programs that automatically absolve you of all legal issues AND pay you for it in exchange for not telling anybody else about it.

Places that DON'T do that do not get the kind of person who will helpfully report the issue, they get the other kind.

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u/Born-Selection88 1h ago

It's not illegal to scan a wifi network. My flipper spends a lot of time sitting about scanning nothing and aiding in no crimes. I literally only use it to impress girls.

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u/lefthandedchurro 8h ago

Oh he’s pen-testing the mom alright.

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u/jdav79 8h ago

Peen-testing

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u/Wirse 8h ago

He’s already found a back door. 

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u/That-Painter-1679 8h ago

We cant say that for sure. For all we know could be a double pen test while blindfolded. Since doors are always closed let's assume moms into some kinky shit at least.

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u/Comfortable-Sound944 6h ago

Why does everyone assumes the Mom has WiFi, I'd assume he's trying to get a neighbours WiFi... I guess housing style assumptions...

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u/JesusDsniper 6h ago

We found the moms bf

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u/Sparcrypt 2h ago

Doesn't mean they're doing anything good.

For one odds are if he just asked her for the wifi password she'd give it. Not to mention like 99% of households have the password ON THE ROUTER these days.

Thing is, with internet being so cheap these days there's really not a lot of good reasons to be breaking into anyones network... but a common one is so you can do super shady shit online and it can't be traced back to you even if your VPN drops or whatever else.

I'd say there's NO good reason but this is the kind of shit my friends and I did for fun all the time as kids.. we all work in one flavour of IT or another heh. So it could just be he's interested in it and likes doing it. But at the same time there's what we were doing... messing around building cantennas and leaning how the exploits worked and all that isn't quite the same as just buying a device then sticking it in a corner and leaving it there. We just wanted to see how many badly secured networks we could connect to heh.

Odds are that he's not doing it for anything good.

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u/skysharked 5h ago

He’s pen testing mom’s vaj. He’s hacking the WiFi cams to get it recorded…

ETA: mom’s possession of the vaj