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I've been playing around with a firewall today when suddenly I got a incoming connection from "census3.shodan.io:

So I denied the connection and immediately Google the server address and found this article.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/04/08/technology/security/shodan/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodan_(website)

Let me stress the fact that I'll never support IoT after this. (Internet of things)

One very good reason to have a proper firewall. One that blocks all connection (in or out going) except that added to a whitelist.

 
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