Chapter XXXII. Cyber detective

Speaking of websites, he is in just the right place, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A week after the start of their intimate relationship, enough is enough with him, something must be known about this organization.

-Robert: My friend, I want you to trace this website address, give me any information about it.

-In a café on campus, Jack pulled out his laptop: Well, let’s begin.

Entered the website to track domain addresses

www.whois.ws

Entered the site address

www.wearenotfromhere.org

-Well, domain registration is not so long ago, in 2022, and has been reserved for many years.

-He added: The domain address is protected, they have purchased a service withholding the owner’s information, and they can only be known by returning to the domain service company or the global domain provider ICAAN.

-Robert with confidence: Yes, of course, they have no problem with the payment, they have a lot of money, believe me.

Jack laughed: They do not need a lot of it, it only costs ten dollars a year.

He hit his head on the ground embarrassed, he does not understand much about these things.

-Jack continued: But this needs some money, look here

He moved the page cursor down, highlighted a website address

www.cloudflare.com

-This is one of the most famous cloud address service sites, it prevents us from knowing the address of the main server operating the site, it is a third part, standing between us and the main site server, receiving our requests and passing them to it, receiving the result from to and passing it to us. It is used to protect servers from hacks and attacks, and to prevent their geographical location from being known through the server’s main IP address.

-Robert: Is this too expensive?

-Jack: They have a free package and paid packages, they might have just bought Max Protection, a few hundred dollars a month. Either way, our way from here is completely blocked, we cannot track the owner of the site, but we have a chance to trace the history of the DNS server address, it is currently pointing to the Cloudflare address, and often when the technicians book the site domain they transfer it to the server directly first, and then after they switch it to cloud servers and by looking at the history of DNS records we may know the address of the previous server, or at least one of their previous servers, and by tracking it they can be traced back, we have a chance, let’s try.

Typing on the keyboard, he entered the website

www.completedns.com

Entered the domain address

www.wearenotfromhere.org

Hit the trace button

-Biting his lip: Damn, so careful, from the first moment they booked the domain they switched it straight to cloud servers, they do not want to leave any trace behind!

-Robert gave him a look of suspicion: Are you saying that they are suspicious?

-Jack: No, actually I do this when I want to obscure a website, I transfer it directly to cloud servers to leave no trace on the main server, what I want to say is that they are professionals, they do not want to leave anything behind, they do not have to be illegal.

He closed the screen of the tablet and look at him: Listen, we have two ways, one is, we go to the domain company directly or the server company, and we ask them for the location information, and they will slam the door in our face or throw us out, they will not give us their customers information except with an official court order. While the second way is, through the CIA or the FBI. They certainly have their own methods that we do not know about.

-Robert laughed: What do you say, my friend! Do you want us to go to the CIA and tell them we want to track this website?

-Jack: I have a friend who works in the FBI’s cybercrime department, I can ask him for a favor.

He grabbed his phone and wrote to someone via the instant messaging app.

-My friend, I want a favor from you, the owner’s information for this site

www.wearenotfromhere.org

-Putting the phone down, there were moments of silence, broken by Jack’s voice: What is the story of the site?

-Robert: Nothing important, they talk about strange things about the metaphysics that have affected the mind of my girlfriend.

-Jack laughed: What are you saying?

He got close to him and whispered: Robert, women do not need websites to be superstitious, they were made with them, my dear.

-Robert shook his head: Yes.

He closed his lips and then added sarcastically: The problem is that it affected me as well.

-Jack: Do not worry, you do not need me, if you feel seedy you can see a psychiatrist, I can arrange an appointment for you with my doctor.

-Robert shrugged: You have a psychiatrist!

-Jack: Yes, since bit in a permanent relationship.

The sound of the phone cut off their laughter, a number of messages arrived in a row, with enthusiasm he grabbed it, pointed at him in the air, now you will know what relationships can do.

open conversation

The sender (Arthur): My friend, the server is located in East Asia, the domain address is registered with information that appears to be fake, the address is fake, the domain company accepts payment in cryptocurrencies, and it was paid, based on this we assume that the server was also purchased in cryptocurrencies, the email address of the site Encrypted and with fake information.

-Jack: There is no way to track it?

-Arthur: This site is impossible to track except by forcing the server company or the domain company, and this is beyond my authority, or hacking it and subjecting it to vigorous monitoring of all visitor movements, to know the IP address of the owner who is authorized to enter the main control panel. But based on what I see in front of me, he certainly uses VPN encryption services, so we have to go back and search for him through the company he uses, and we will often run into such things, and we will enter into an endless loop. I do not have enough powers to track it, if the site supports terrorism, you must file a report about it and follow the traditional protocols, and if the administration has accepted to open a monitoring file for it, we may be able to do something about it.

-Jack: No, my friend, it is not worth it.

-Arthur: There is one thing I can tell you, this domain address is very recent, but it is not the original, there is another domain address they have that is older than it, and it is been scrapped and created instead, their history is older than their address.

He put the phone in Robert’s hands, he read the conversation, a dazed look on his face

-It is an organization! It receives money from subscribers, why all this secrecy?

-Jack: Repeat what you just said!

-He furrowed his eyebrows, not understanding what he meant: What?

-Did you pay them?

-yes

With a credit card?

-No, actually my girlfriend is the one who paid, and I think she paid it by card, maybe…

-Jack exclaimed: My friend, let her call the bank and ask them to whom her money went!

For the second time today, he bit his lip, furrowed his eyebrows more, and hit his head on the ground

-He put his hand on his forehead, “Heck me, how did I not think of that!”