Since we've looked at everything else in the world, let's take a look at ATS and what actually lies behind it.
ATS was first created on: 17-May-97 when the internet was still fairly new..
the domain was registered on this date to a William Irvine in Comanche, Oklahoma. What's interesting is the fact that we come here to spill out our
theories detail by detail, but who's
really paying attention?
The United Stated Federal Government!
We know that within walking distance of Comanche, OK is Oklahoma City. We know what's in Oklahoma City, an FBI headquarters with an elite cyber unit
possessing some of the worlds most sophisticated internet tracking and sniffing software.
The FBI has just celebrated 10 years with special cybercrime units like the Innocent Images National Initiative, which has now gone international
in scope. In the past 10 years, the FBI has developed the Computer Intrusion Unit, the Computer Crime Task Force, Cyber Action Teams, IC3 (Internet
Criminal Complaint Center), and ECAP (Endangered Child Alert Program). As a result of these specialized units, the federal goverment has increased
the investigative presence on the Internet, investigating more than 15,000 crimes and filing criminal charges or indicting in more than 6,000 cases
which resulted in nearly 4,800 convictions in the past 10 years.
Yes, this is
in Oklahoma City!
Next we'll take a look at the server itself:
ATS was registered through godaddy.com which isn't unusual, however.. After taking a closer look at the configuration of this domain you will see
that Update, Transfer, Renew, and Delete have been prohobited by the registrant. Hmm...
Next let's take a look at the domain servers routing and powering this thing:
Domain servers in listed order:
NS4.DNSMADEEASY.COM
NS3.DNSMADEEASY.COM
NS2.DNSMADEEASY.COM
NS1.DNSMADEEASY.COM
NS0.DNSMADEEASY.COM
DNS made easy is exactly how it sounds. The true identity of your web server can be effectively masked to a government server without anyone ever
knowing any different.
Moving right along let's take a look at what happens when attempting to reach the destination host of these servers:
10 47 ms 46 ms 47 ms nlayer.xe-1-3-0.cr1.sjc1.us.scnet.net [69.22.153.170]
11 47 ms 46 ms 46 ms v52.ar1.sjc1.us.scnet.net [216.246.103.2]
12 48 ms 47 ms 47 ms ge0-1.aggr20.sjc1.us.scnet.net [66.225.245.66]
13 * * * Request timed out.
Interesting how once we hit the *.us* extension the trace seems to start timing out.
You can do this for yourself by going to a shell window by clicking on run and typing: cmd once at the command prompt type tracert followed by any
one of the listed DNS servers.
Maybe we're revealing our thoughts to deep undercover federal agents and they're using this as a tool to weed out the good ones.
Let's see how many
minutes this thread lasts...
[edit on 14-5-2008 by Quarantine]
