Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

[Feuer Frei!]

Google knows everything? That may be true, but, it has a competitor for finding information!
Meet Shodan, the 'dark' Google.

Unlike Google, which crawls the Web looking for websites, Shodan navigates the Internet's back channels. It's a kind of 'dark' Google, looking for the servers, webcams, printers, routers and all the other stuff that is connected to and makes up the Internet. (Shodan's site was slow to load Monday following the publication of this story.) Shodan runs 24/7 and collects information (http://www.shodanhq.com/) on about 500 million connected devices and services each month. It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on Shodan.

SOURCE (http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/technology/security/shodan/)

[Mork_417]

Pffft, what was i thinking? Of course it's going to be blocked here at work! :/\\!!

[Red October1984]

Of course everyone on subsim uses this and gets infected..... :hmmm:

[Feuer Frei!]

gets infected..... :hmmm:
No no no, you infect them :haha:

[Jimbuna]

I'd rather not tempt fate and rely on my security programmes.

[mookiemookie]

"Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?"

[AVGWarhawk]

"I can't do that Dave."

[the_tyrant]

Seriously? Another fear mongering, click bait article.

There has been services like this for a LONG time, both legitimate, and illegitimate (ISPs do it, and here are shady people on hacking forums offering this kind of service).

Hell, you can build up your own database, by using nmap: http://nmap.org

[STEED]

I'd rather not tempt fate and rely on my security programmes.

That reminds jim, your M.I.5 Internet Security subscription has gone up £500. You have three days to renew or we pull the plug. :03:

[Oberon]

In before Skybird.

[Platapus]

Anyone else use ixquick at their search engine?

[frau kaleun]

Anyone else use ixquick at their search engine?

No, I just use it to make pancakes.

Wait, what?

[Rilder]

Definitely an interesting thing really but not really that unsurprising, I mean the internet is massive, absolutely massive and the stuff you see on a daily basis and the stuff shown on search engines like google is just the teensy tip of the gargantuan iceburg that is the internet. Just look up Deep Web sometime and you start to realize how massive this beast humanity has created is, and how stupid it sounds when governments and companies think they can control it.

[eddie]

In before Skybird.

:haha:

[Jimbuna]

That reminds jim, your M.I.5 Internet Security subscription has gone up £500. You have three days to renew or we pull the plug. :03:

Twelve monthly payments at 0% APR :o