
“Shodan crawls the Internet looking for devices, many of which are programmed to answer. It has found cars, fetal heart monitors, office building heating-control systems, water treatment facilities, power plant controls, traffic lights and glucose meters. It’s become a crucial tool for security researchers, academics, law enforcement and hackers looking for devices that shouldn’t be on the Internet or devices that are vulnerable to being hacked. An industry report from Swedish tech company Ericsson estimates that 50 billion devices will be networked by 2020 into an ‘Internet of Things.'”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/09/04/shodan-terrifying-search-engine/
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