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Comment by janoelze | Hacker News Reader

I dont think it is? https://alec.is/posts/ip-crawl-exposing-the-massive-open-web...

You think two independent scans of the internet captured the same image with the same timestamp entirely by coincidence?

Edit: they're literally the same image

2fc4ad21cfce564f7aa65942eae7d4529c8af3d7ffb6287aa1fd79ebb78eb648 ipcrawl.jpg

2fc4ad21cfce564f7aa65942eae7d4529c8af3d7ffb6287aa1fd79ebb78eb648 shodan.jpg

From the article he linked:

  If a subsequent probe fails, the system cross-references threat intelligence platforms like Shodan to match the host and falls back to their specific indexing methods.

So it uses Shodan, but is not purely a mirror.

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