Help: Can anyone identify what this is?

Ulex Europae europus at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 16:05:46 PDT 2015


Do you run a WiFi network? What is the nature of your business, is it
financial? Those could be repackaged Pineapple devices, who knows.

http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/wifi-pineapple?variant=81044992

What about the person? Age? Fit? Could it have been an undercover LEO?
Someone doing pentesting seems likely to me.


At 04:12 AM 3/19/2015, Troy Etulain wrote:
>It would be helpful to know what the units of 
>measurement are on the side. If they are amps it 
>would indicate that the boxes are transmitting a 
>signal, rather than listening. Can you tell from the video?Â
>
>Were the lights flashing? Interesting that only 
>one is illuminated in this photo.Â
>
>On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Alfie John 
><<mailto:alfiej at fastmail.fm>alfiej at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>We had someone loitering near our front office door today. The
>conversation went like this:
>
>Â  Me: What are you doing?
>Â  Him: Nothing
>Â  Me: Where are you from?
>Â  Him: A company
>Â  Me: Do you work for Google (he was wearing a Google t-shirt)?
>Â  Him: No
>Â  Me: Who do you work for?
>Â  Him: Leidos
>
>He had a device hidden near the stairwell door:
>
>Â 
><https://www.alfie.wtf/photos/wispy.jpg>https://www.alfie.wtf/photos/wispy.jpg
>
>Sorry for the low quality image. It was taken from a capture of a
>video. I've got the video at work but would rather not release it as
>yet because it has his face on it.
>
>The diameter of the antenna base was around 2cm and the height
>of the antenna was around 15cm.
>
>Someone on Reddit said that it looked like a jammer. After going to
>Google Images and searching for the following, it looks like he's on the
>right track:
>
>Â  - "GSM detector"
>Â  - "GSM jammer"
>Â  - "GPS detector"
>Â  - "GPS jammer"
>
>If anyone has info on what this device could be or where I could go to
>get more info, that would be much appreciated.
>
>Alfie
>
>--
>Â  Alfie John
>Â  <mailto:alfiej at fastmail.fm>alfiej at fastmail.fm
>
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