As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 244 How to Find Someone
Daniel has always believed that finding people is an art.

And he considers himself a master of this art.

Daniel had never failed except for Merlin. The only difference was the time, the time to find the target person.

Daniel always regretted that he was not born in the eighteenth century. If he were born in that century, he would have had the opportunity to fight Jack the Ripper.

Instead, living in the modern world of advanced technology, any case will leave countless clues and there is no challenge at all.

This time was no exception in Daniel's opinion.

"Daniel, according to the information provided by Vodafone, the other party's number once appeared briefly in Brixton, Lambeth."

Daniel went over Brixton's information in his mind and thought to himself that this was not good.

London is a large area with more than thirty administrative divisions.

Although most people only have East London and West London in their minds, this is because East London is a newly developed area with rich industries and new influx of population.

West London is an old wealthy area in England. The King's Palace, the Prime Minister's residence, the Parliament and other places are all in West London.

At the same time, the famous Chelsea is located in West London.

In fact, London is divided into North and South London. North London has Tottenham and Arsenal, and South London has Crystal Palace.

London's actual regional divisions are divided into thirty-two administrative areas.

Daniel quickly recalled the relevant information about Brixton from his mind. Specifically, this place is located in the Lambeth district in South London.

South London is home to a large number of ordinary residents, and Brixton is the last stop of the Victory Line of the subway. It is very chaotic, with a large number of black people living around it and a mixed population.

Brixton is a recognized dangerous area in London. Most Chinese students agree not to go to the area at night, or even just not go there at all.

At the same time, due to financial constraints, there are almost no cameras in this area.

"It is highly likely that he does not live in the Brixton area. We can now start to create a simple portrait of Mr. X." Daniel instructed.

Mr. X was the nickname they gave to the magician who appeared on FB.

A colleague who lives in Brixton said: “Daniel, you are prejudiced against Brixton.

The area is much safer now than before, and many emerging middle-class people buy houses in Brixton.

There are areas there that are even better than some areas at Chelsea."

Chelsea is an old wealthy area.

But the rich and poor areas of London are not so absolute.

In other words, an administrative district will not be entirely rich or poor.

There can be obvious and strong differences within the same administrative region.

Daniel had indeed not been to Brixton for many years, and his reaction was based on his limited memory.

But he couldn’t admit he was being territorial: “I don’t know Brixton well enough.

But from what I know about Mr. X, the presence of his mobile phone signal in Brixton was an obvious trick to divert our attention.”

A colleague asked back: "Why not think the other way around? Let's think he's not in Brixton, but he is in Brixton?"

Daniel realized that if the discussion continued like this, it would be an infinite spiral and would lead to no results, so he changed the subject:
"It doesn't matter where he is right now, it's even possible that he is no longer in London.

For example, I have already gone to Manchester or Nottingham.

But these are not important, they are just for reference. What is more important is to confirm his identity first. It will be much faster to find someone after his identity is confirmed."

After confirming that the video on Facebook was unedited and without props, England briefly blocked traffic to the outside world.

But this blockade is unsustainable and has little effectiveness.

Because there is not enough manpower to block the border. If you really want to go out, there is definitely a way to leave through Northern Ireland or Scotland.

So as time goes by, it is definitely getting harder and harder to find people.

Based on Daniel's understanding of the English, he didn't think that anyone who gained superpowers such as magic would be willing to cooperate with the government.

"The other party obviously realized that we could determine their location through the signal interaction of text messages. In addition, they would use jump machines and anonymous networks, which is definitely not a technology that ordinary people can master.

A certain amount of information security knowledge is required as a background.”

"The problem is there are so many people with similar backgrounds in London that it's impossible to confirm his true identity based on this.

What we need is to first lock down his personal information through the Internet.”

London has rich educational resources and a large number of Internet companies.

Big companies like FB, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Twitter all have branches in London.

This does not include small and medium-sized Internet companies in London.

One of the important reasons why no Internet giants emerged in Europe is that the language has not been unified.

Therefore, even if there are good ideas, they are easily limited to the country and difficult to expand. Take Opera as an example. Opera, which was born in Norway in 1995, is a very excellent browser product.

The technology is powerful and easy to use, but it has always been lukewarm.

Many Internet companies in Europe have similar problems, focusing on technology and neglecting marketing.

Daniel said directly: “Can we get technical support from FB?
Is this phone number registered for WhatsApp? "

"No, we asked when we went to FB headquarters to retrieve the IP address and mobile phone number. The phone has not been registered with WhatsApp."

WhatsApp is a software similar to WeChat, which is very common abroad and is affiliated with FB.

Daniel hesitated for a moment and then said, “Can we get greater cooperation from FB?
Let’s go to FB. We need to investigate historical data in WhatsApp.

Through system screening, chat records in which words related to magic and Merlin frequently appeared in the past seven days were selected.

In particular, there were magical chat records between 8 pm and 12 pm yesterday.

Because the opponent's video was uploaded at eleven o'clock, it means that the opponent probably had the ability to cast spells before that.

If the other party discusses with friends, then magic-related chat records will definitely appear frequently during this time period."

They have analyzed the hands of the people in the video internally, and the skin on the hands showed that they were most likely between 25 and 35 years old.

People of this age, no matter how vigilant they are, cannot stop wanting to show off.

Based on the existing information, Daniel judged that the other party had a certain amount of information security knowledge.

And after discovering that he might receive a magic-related inheritance, he obviously consciously created an online identity that was different from his real identity.

It is very likely that conscious isolation has been performed on the mobile phone IMEI serial number and network card MAC address.

Even the phone card was not his own, but was bought from someone else.

Therefore, Daniel thought that it didn't make much sense to use a mobile phone card to find someone.

But since the other person is young, under 35 years old is still considered young, it is difficult to suppress the desire to show off.

There are many purposes for others to shoot and upload videos, which may be to show off or to find companions.

He might hope to find companions who also master magic through this method.

"Sorry, the customer's chat history is private and we at FB do not have the right to view it."

"We don't need to check, we just need to filter out the chat records where certain words frequently appeared between 8pm and 12pm last night."

"and then?"

“And then we want to see those chats.”

“Yes, isn’t this still stealing user privacy? Sorry, this is not allowed.”

In fact, Daniel had a hunch that FB was already doing this, and even transmitted suspicious chat records back to America via submarine optical cables.

But he didn't have the authority to cut off the network of the entire FB office building.

"you."

Unfortunately, there is no wizard in London now. The wizards in England have either gone to Brussels or stayed in Cambridge.

If there were a wizard in London at this time, he would definitely feel that his spellcasting had become easier.

Yes, the existence of the magic network also has a certain benefit effect on mages who gain spellcasting ability through the magic brain.

The colleague who was sent to FB showed his ID and suppressed his anger: "This is an order!"

"Sir, even if you are the FBI, we still do not have the authority to show you the user's chat history.

This is not allowed. Even if Zuckerberg were standing in front of me now, he would not have this authority.

Even I don't have this authority." The other party said firmly.

“Sorry, FB’s attitude is very tough and the other party said they cannot cooperate.

I found our boss's boss and called them, and they just took a step back.

He said that if we could tell him the specific account, he would be willing to retrieve the chat records of the past few days for us.

Daniel thought to himself, it really won’t be that easy.

Since this incident fermented on FB for a long time, although the video was deleted on FB, it had already been spread all over the place.

The American side must have received the news, so FB refused to cooperate with their work for various reasons.

Daniel expected the other party to reject him.

"Okay, come back quickly. I have a new idea. I have a feeling that we will find new clues soon."

One more chapter tomorrow morning

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(End of this chapter)