I'm not affiliated with the company in any way, there's not even a reflink. I just find the service useful and fun.

At first I wasn't sure whether to post it here or not, but since it's certainly more tech related than the business model of twitter and reddit, which is being discussed here pretty often, I decided to go for it.

Shodan is good for violating other people's privacy without them knowing it lol

Well, if you ever asked yourself "How can I nmap the whole internet without wasting months of my life?" Shodan is for you. Otherwise, it's probably not.

If you're still curious anyway, I'm not the best person to pitch it to you... but I know just the right guy - Viss, and his DefCon presentation. Shodan is a tool that can help you find stuff that he talks about.

TOTES MCGOATS©

I believe it was the fictional artificial intelligence that became self-aware and tried to take over the world in the game System Shock, and later System Shock 2.

Same here and the network monitoring isn't a bad bonus.

Being connected online is advertising intrusion vectors to would-be nefarious actors

Shodan getting hug-of-death'ed.

Well crap. I was waiting until the end of the day to buy it. That's too bad..

Edit: I guess that information was in the image, but would have been nice if it was in the post text too..

Same thing happened to me few years back. I forgot I got the membership last time there was a promotion :D

I've used it in the past to pirate foreign broadcast TV, but lately I just occasionally check my own stuff, or our customers stuff when there's a problem. It's nicer than nmap, and good enough for the initial part of the analysis.

That's how they get ya

Why?