Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web in Just One Hour

Re:Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web... by teamhappy on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:04PM (#15142867)

> 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...

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Re:Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web... by anfractuosity on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:06PM (#15142888)

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."

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Re:Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web... by great_psy on Thursday August 31, 2017 @07:42PM (#15144964)

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 )

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