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Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

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Re: Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

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Post by larrys »

tptacek wrote: post #85
porker wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this script available? Thanks

Shoot me an email.

Would be interesting to offer this script as "ptaas" penetration testing as a service. That way instead of having the script and having the potential to abuse the script (or temptation) someone would be forced to allow tracking of the IP (presumably their own or their companies) that they are doing the testing on (and you could compile statistics for use elsewhere as a condition if they got the script for free). I know companies already offer this service (we had to go through one of those for PCI) but iirc it was rather expensive. FWIW the bank that required it never followed up after the initial "you have to do this and we suggest this particular company".

Re: Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

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Post by notjustanymike »

gtaylor wrote: post #76
anigbrowl wrote: post #4

+1 for the System Shock reference :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock

Gah, still get creeped out watching the System Shock 2 intro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXPn6wcsUmk Let's hope this Shodan isn't as intelligent and psycho as System Shock 2 Shodan! Oh, and no zombies.

"Lo- lo- lo- look at you hacker.."

I've beaten this game at least 4 times, including co-op a couple times. Such a great piece of gaming history.

Re: Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

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Post by VLM »

noonespecial wrote: post #82
rcfox wrote: post #78

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Consider yellow to mean "stop", and the length of it becomes irrelevant and the roads become a little bit safer.

For each given stop light, speed limit, and vehicle configuration, there is a rubicon that is crossed where it is impossible to stop before entering the intersection. Set up your camera and creep the yellow light time down past this limit and profits just start rolling in.

Exactly. There's uncountable number of stories easily google-able across the country where intersections with red light cameras magically coincidentally have their yellow light interval dropped by 1/4 to 1/3 vs intersections without red light cameras, to increase revenue.

Re: Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

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Post by kaybe »

btilly wrote: post #65
wjamesg wrote: post #34

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I'm a relatively new HN reader (~1 year) and have taken much away from my time here (much reading, few comments). I understand where you're coming from with concerns about quality; however, I resent the fact that I may be considered part of the increased readership responsible for "HN's decline"

Hopefully knowing my fuller opinion will decrease your resentment. I suspect that new users follow something like an 90/10 rule. 90% of them are good to have around, and contribute more than they detract. New blood is good. But 10% contribute junk that is like virtual cholesterol, it builds up, clogs the system, and if left untreated eventually will be lethal to the community. of that 10%, perhaps 10% are simply toxi…

During packing we were still checking all the pears for injuries ("stem punch", caused by other pears), since apparently it would spoil the whole box if there was a bad one. (Packing pears in New Zealand for export to Europe and the US) - On a commercial and longterm scale you apparently still have to take care.

Re: Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

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Post by jlgreco »

kaybe wrote: post #104
btilly wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully knowing my fuller opinion will decrease your resentment. I suspect that new users follow something like an 90/10 rule. 90% of them are good to have around, and contribute more than they detract. New blood is good. But 10% contribute junk that is like virtual cholesterol, it builds up, clogs the system, and if left untreated eventually will be lethal to the community. of that 10%, perhaps 10% are simply toxi…

During packing we were still checking all the pears for injuries ("stem punch", caused by other pears), since apparently it would spoil the whole box if there was a bad one. (Packing pears in New Zealand for export to Europe and the US) - On a commercial and longterm scale you apparently still have to take care.

Rotting fruits release ethylene gas which is a ripening agent. This causes fruit next to rotting fruit to ripen then rot.

An interesting mechanism I think. Before looking that up I would have suspected a biological transmission of infection or something, not a chemical transmission.

Re: Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

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Post by Torrents »

btilly wrote: post #22
IheartApplesDix wrote: post #16

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Crazy idea, if you don't know what you're talking about, shut the hell up.

I used to be able to tell people like you to go back to Reddit. Unfortunately the quality of HN has declined far enough that your content-free insulting of a decent question is not immediately recognizable as something with no place here. I consider that fact a sad commentary on how far HN has fallen.

Responding to trolls probably does more to decrease the quality of discourse than the original troll does, since those typically get voted into oblivion relatively quickly.

Tossing in a belittling jab at another website to boot doesn't help either.

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