ophelia wrote:
People are already debating over how soon SHODAN will be forced to shut down, and leaving aside the legal issues.

I hadn't heard of it. Its interesting.

From an ethical perspective, if its only purpose is to facilitate intrusions its probably not legal to operate it. The question is whether it has some value to legitimate security researchers, and I think the answer is yes. I would like to have someone perform a detailed netwide port scan and make the data available so that I can study it. I'm not sure a search engine is the right interface for getting at that data, but its a start.

Unfortunately a search for port 5060 returned no results, so I don't think the data here is comprehensive yet. Also, the site is buggy.

RE: Some thoughts on SHODAN