The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

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To help me solve this mistery I asked reddit and surely enough they identified the dongle as a microprocessor, almost as powerful as the Rasberry Pi itself: the nRF52832-MDK. A very powerful wifi, bluetooth and RFID reader. Resin is a paid IOT web service where you can generate images for IOT devices, deploy those devices and get updates and data from and to resin. Json file I found a person in the same town where this Pi was found. Another very interesting thing I found was a file on the third partition in the path /root-overlay/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/. What do we do, when we want to find out a location associated with a wifi name? We go to wigle.net, enter the SSID and it tells us where on the world it is found. Guess what? The address we found of that gifted persons parents? That's exactly where our Pi was set up according to Wigle.net. I checked the DNS logs and found the exact date and time when the Pi was first seen in the network.
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)



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