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For more than a decade, Shodan has been singularly focused on understanding network services and devices available to the Internet. To that end, we’ve developed a lot of custom protocol parsers and tooling to get insights about exposed services. You can get a sense for the type of information that’s

The Internet looks different depending on where you live. The Chinese firewall is the classic example but there are lots of other instances as well. Many websites block traffic from countries in which they will never have customers. Data privacy concerns can require organizations to serve user requests from nearby

Shodan was originally designed as a tool to understand how technology use is changing on the Internet. The information collected from the Shodan crawlers would be able to provide users with a data-driven view of what the Internet looks like; i.e. not based on surveys or sampling of popular