Shodan Safari, where hackers heckle the worst devices put on the internet

If you leave something on the Internet long enough, someone will hack it. In fact, many device manufacturers simplify things a lot by using widely-documented default passwords that allow anyone to log in as an administrator and be searched. Often, there is no password at all. Enter "Shodan Safari", part of the popular game, part of the catharsis, where hackers tweet and share their worst finds on Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases popular with security researchers . Nearly everything that connects to the Internet is scraped and tagged in Shodan's extensive search engine – including what

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