Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

Feuer Frei! · 04-10-13, 04:59 AM

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

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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 on about 500 million connected devices and services each month. It's stunning what can be found with a simple search on Shodan.

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Mork_417 · 04-10-13, 05:29 AM

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

Red October1984 · 04-10-13, 07:47 AM

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

Feuer Frei! · 04-10-13, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Red October1984

gets infected.....

No no no, you infect them

Jimbuna · 04-10-13, 08:26 AM

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

mookiemookie · 04-10-13, 08:30 AM

"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 · 04-10-13, 08:43 AM

"I can't do that Dave."

the_tyrant · 04-10-13, 11:04 AM

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 · 04-10-13, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

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.

Oberon · 04-10-13, 11:28 AM

In before Skybird.

Platapus · 04-10-13, 11:50 AM

Anyone else use ixquick at their search engine?

frau kaleun · 04-10-13, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Anyone else use ixquick at their search engine?

No, I just use it to make pancakes.

Wait, what?

04-10-13, 12:40 PM

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 · 04-10-13, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

In before Skybird.

Jimbuna · 04-10-13, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

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.

Twelve monthly payments at 0% APR

04-10-13, 05:29 AM	#2
Mork_417 Lieutenant Commander Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: DB-15 Posts: 851 Downloads: 263 Uploads: 0	Pffft, what was i thinking? Of course it's going to be blocked here at work! __________________ Heading to AM49.(U-553)

04-10-13, 07:47 AM	#3
Red October1984 Airplane Nerd Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Texas Posts: 6,243 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	Of course everyone on subsim uses this and gets infected..... __________________

04-10-13, 08:26 AM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,446 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I'd rather not tempt fate and rely on my security programmes. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-10-13, 08:30 AM	#6
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	"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?" __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

04-10-13, 11:04 AM	#8
the_tyrant Admiral Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 2,272 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ My own open source project on Sourceforge OTP.net KGB grade encryption for the rest of us

04-10-13, 08:43 AM	#7
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	"I can't do that Dave."

04-10-13, 11:28 AM	#10
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	In before Skybird.

04-10-13, 11:50 AM	#11
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Anyone else use ixquick at their search engine? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

04-10-13, 12:40 PM	#13
Rilder Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	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.