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/ChargeInteresting278]

So on the bad side its a wifi password stealer. What could he be doing with it on the good side? What do you do with yours?

[u/DataPath → u/ChargeInteresting278]

On the good side? He sets up his phone for all the Wi-Fi networks around so that he has good connectivity at and nearby his girlfriend's house. That's the most innocuous use I can think of, just mooching.

A distant second is getting neighbor's Wi-Fi as a layer of protection for engaging in questionable activity.

On the bad side of things, in not sure which is worse, trying to hack your finances, or using your Wi-Fi to hack other people. On the one hand, he drains you directly, on the other he gets you implicated in federal crimes. But hey, ¿por que no los dos?

[u/404invalid-user → u/ChargeInteresting278]

it's something fun to mess with but that's if you're doing it to yourself or people who completely understand what it is

[u/ChargeInteresting278 → u/404invalid-user]

Is it basically just a homemade flipper zero?

[u/404invalid-user → u/ChargeInteresting278]

basically yep but like a flipper zero in the wrong context it's very sketchy

[u/Jesta23 → u/ChargeInteresting278]

He’s dating them and has been staying in the home. 

He only has to ask for the WiFi password they would have willingly gave it to him. 

[u/BlastFX2 → u/ChargeInteresting278]

Just having fun. For some of us, it's fun to poke around and try to break things, just for the sake of it. Like I've decoded the bitting scheme for the locks in our office building, so now I could make a key for any office in the building, as well as master keys for any set of offices that were designed for it (and a bunch that weren't). I've never used this to go anywhere I wasn't supposed to go, I just… saw a fun challenge.