Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet

Post by nostrademons » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 1:55 AM UTC

vidarh wrote: post #115

pseut wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably Shodan ignores robots.txt, right?

A "bad" search engine should treat robots.txt pretty much in reverse: Anything disallowed should go to the top of the list of things to index.. There are sites out there that uses robots.txt rules to prevent Google from indexing things that should be password protected but isn't...

The irony is that robots.txt doesn't even prevent things from being indexed. The files can still be indexed if there's a link to them on the Internet; that's what is for. (Which, ironically, requires that the page not be robotted, because if it is it can't be crawled, which means the meta tag can't be discovered.)

Post by kens » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 3:47 AM UTC

kens wrote: post #135

speeder wrote: post #2

I wonder, why noone turned off traffic lights or something like that to do mischief? Also, why no terrorist yet used those security failures to do terror? Once a random dude managed to log into ISS controls... Ever wondered what happens if some terrorist crash ISS into New York?

I read a novel in the late 1970s where a "hacker" breaks into a city's computer system and messes with traffic lights - does anyone remember the title? In the novel, the modified traffic light timing kills some joyriding teens who blow through an intersection counting on the light to stay green. At the climax of the book, the villain tries to kill off the protagonists by electronically locking the data center doors a…

Just in case anyone ends up here, the book I was thinking of turns out to be the rather obscure novel "Intruder" by Charbonneau from 1979.

More info on the book: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/louis-charbonneau...

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