Shodan: Search Engine for Hackers

Shodan has been getting a lot of publicity lately as a "scary" search engine that can be used to facilitate hacking. Annie explains how the site works, and talks with Shodan Founder John Matherly about what his hopes for the website are.

Host: Annie Gaus
Producer: Lauren Rudser
Associate Producers: Todd Boudreaux, Chastity Vicencio
Editor: Frank Knight

[l]

"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?"

[remotefreak]

Protip: Naming your search engine after an evil malicious artificial intelligence that creates techno-zombies will automatically instil fear into anyone that uses it.

[techfeed]

Is #Shodan  actually the "scariest search engine on the Internet" or can we use it as a resource for good?

[flowerhornpliskin]

Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence. I am SHODAN.

[joshingaboutwithjosh]

shodan is the name of the intelligent systems program in system shock 2

[spookseo]

Taking care of your information online is as hard as doing it live. All the investments that you have put up will definitely go to waste if you are not careful of what you click online. This one can still be cured if only search engines can clear out the information that is being shared in their systems.

[ernestcotton]

This is a great tool that allows more uniform ways to research the many things that are involved in the I.O.T and anyone that is pursuing a career in cyber-security to have a teaching tool that gives you a full scope of what can go wrong.

[stefano-hdes]

If the creator doesn't want people to get scared about the search engine, why did he named it (or HER) Shodan?

[BogusJesus]

Network security 101; Change the default admin password.

[sebastianGunnarson]

Ever played SS2? shodan is terrifying...

[IMBIue]

Does this mean that I can Shodan "Shodan" itself for some interesting info?

Btw, that photo of Shodan kinda reminds me of 'mother' from FFVII.

[dlausactor]

Shodan starts as a search engine...
But what will SHE become???

[ImaginationToForm]

I found this nuclear power plant in Iran on the internet...What does this button do, hrm? Used to find it amusing what I found on internet like coke machines, cams, Lindsay Lohan. But now its getting pretty scary: People's oven's, power planets, Lindsay Lohan. No wonder why we running out of IP address again.

[animax]

Ya your right, It's not working already...

[jmm]

I hate when people mispronounce her name

[AnnieGaus]

i do actually, and not just cuz of macklemore.

[MacroPheliac]

Most vloggers and people in heavy internet production use Apple. Deal with it.

You must be new to Revision3 :)

[MacroPheliac]

Eh, I'm not really offended so much as curious as to why you're surprised that she's using a Mac.

I use virtually every desktop platform under the sun, I'm not really picking sides.

[paulspwengify]

Now we just have to download shodan onto glados

[MacroPheliac]

Scariest search engine my ass, if something isn't secure, how is that the fault of Shodan? If anything it'll cause a few people to wake up and secure their shit.