From the article: "It's comparable to Shodan, a search tool for connected devices, but turbo charged and closed to the general public, Junio's previously said."

I think their big thing is speed. They are scanning the entire IPV4 space in 60 minutes which... is kind of impressive? I haven't thought about it but doing a port scan on my public network takes a little bit of time and I'm only dealing with couple dozen IPs.

ZMap claims to scan the IPv4 space in 45 minutes (although you would need some fancy hardware for that ;)

> although you would need some fancy hardware for that

You only need 1 Gbit/s upstream and a laptop to hit the 45 minute mark. On fancy hardware zmap needs less than 5 minutes.

One of the people behind the project presented it a 30C3 a few years back (including a live scan) in case anyone is interested: https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5533_-_en_-_saal_2_-_201312281...

Oh neat, I thought it was a 10G card they were using. Wow, 5 mins is amazing with 10G.

I'm just browsing their website some more, they seem to have lots of interesting libraries too, like https://github.com/zmap/ztag

"ZTag processes ZGrab output and annotates raw scan data with additional metadata such as device model and vulnerabilities."

I wonder how many years it will be until we can have a personal search engine, like google , running on our own server.

Surely the technology will be cheap enough to do at some point.

(To reach to the capability of what google is doing right now, not to surpass what they will be doing then )

Thanks for reminding me about the Ztools! Absolutly love some of the applications found on https://zmap.io/.

Silly source, but http://www.securitynewspaper.com/2015/10/15/how-to-scan-whol...