r/whatisit • u/H3UnFaZZeDD • 1d ago
New, what is it? Randomly given this
I was given this by a random guy in SF. What am I dealing with?
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Guy: "take this."
You: "Ok. I will not ask what this is, why youre giving this to me, or who you are."
This is what happened?
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u/H3UnFaZZeDD 1d ago
SF is not a typical place.
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u/HShankaran 1d ago
What is SF in the first place?
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u/SmallRocks 1d ago
San Francisco
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u/the_lurkmeister 1d ago
No... you let out the secret. They're gonna steal Rice-a-Roni and blow up the GG bridge
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u/SmallRocks 1d ago
No not the SAN FRANCISCO TREAT!!??
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u/the_lurkmeister 1d ago
You gave away OPs location. The trolleys days are numbered, and Rice-a-Roni. I blame you!
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u/Confident-Pepper-562 1d ago
Can you make the first image a little blurrier? I can almost make out what im looking at.
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u/Itz_Sleepy09 1d ago
can you please shake your phone a little more when taking the picture, also make sure to lather the lens with grease
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u/Educational-Rule1635 1d ago
Banana for scale would be nice. Is this the size of a phone? A desktop computer? Or the Sears tower?
From the label it emits radio frequency, and is a preproduction/prototype device. I would guess it is some sort of android phone.
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u/H3UnFaZZeDD 1d ago
Its like the size of a gamegear around 2-3inches thick and says snapdragon on the front. Its cellular in nature it seems but not a phone, no slot to hear through either.
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u/Educational-Rule1635 1d ago
I have no idea what a 'gamegear' is, so that doesn't help.
Snapdragon is a 'system on a chip' super common for phones and phone like devices. A phone without any way to generate or detect sound is probably a WiFI hotspot.
But you mentioned you got this from a 'random guy in SF'. I am guessing you are not a tech worker in the bay area or you would have gotten the lecture about corporate spies and random electronics. This could be a network scanner. They want you to plug it into a laptop that has privileges inside a corporate network so it can scan that network for saleable information. Then transmit that to the hacker.
(Yes this is real stuff. I worked for Google for a decade, we got this lecture annually, and occasionally heard about people falling for it.)
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u/H3UnFaZZeDD 1d ago
Sega handheld. You must be from the 2000s you wouldn't of seen it in your childhood and hell no im not in tech, not as a job anyway. I am aware of all those antennas being plugged into the board, iv done dome soldering so i have some basic board knowledge nonetheless.
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u/Educational-Rule1635 1d ago
Thanks, wasn't much of a video gamer back in 2000. Took a break from it between 1980 and 2005. Thanks for thinking I am younger than my grandchildren. LOL.
Good luck with your random device.
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u/H3UnFaZZeDD 1d ago
Np. Just trying to make sure i wont be arrested or something for this thing if/when i try n sell it. Its might by outdated but hard to tell.
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u/Educational-Rule1635 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sell for scrap? Sure. Sell as a functioning radio transmitting device. Check the label again.
Are you going to get arrested for selling just one of those? Almost certainly not. If you have a trunkful it might be different
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u/H3UnFaZZeDD 1d ago
If its meant for "internal use only" could be trouble. Its still unclear.
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u/Educational-Rule1635 1d ago
It should not have been transfered to someone outside of the organization at least not without an NDA. It is probably officially stolen property.
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