Members TampaYankee Posted August 29, 2014 Members Posted August 29, 2014 This Map Shows Every Connected Device On The Internet The Huffington Post | By Ed Mazza Here's a new way of looking at the world: A map showing the location of every single device connected to the Internet. The image was created by John Matherly, founder of Shodan, a search engine for connected devices. He pinged every device online, then mapped the location of the ones that responded: John Matherly @achillean Follow Pinged all devices on the Internet, here's a map of where they're located 1:49 PM - 28 Aug 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The colors show how many devices are in an area. The redder the dot, the more the devices. The bluer, the fewer. Some areas have no dots, and you'll notice a single dot near the middle of Greenland. A user on reddit, 2pete, identified it as a NOAA observatory. Matherly explained how he created the map on Twitter: "(T)he technical aspects are very straight-forward: send a PING request to every IP on the Internet, store positives response then plot them on a map," he wrote. On reddit, he offered some more details: "My ping request would only reach whatever is directly connected to the Internet (i.e. your modem), which for a lot of people is their router," Matherly wrote. "Note that it does also reach phones sometimes, I've seen iPhone/Android devices pop up on Shodan before." It took about five hours to get the data, Matherly said, and another 12 hours to create the map. Matherly wrote on Twitter that he collected the data on Aug. 2, and that he plans to do this again and track the changes over time. "I would expect certain areas (especially in Africa) to become brighter, but the only way to know for sure is to gather empirical data and keep track of it that way," he wrote on reddit. For those interested in more details and the problem with trying to map data in some areas, read the full discussion on reddit. See the original article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/29/map-connected-devices_n_5734462.html Quote
Members RA1 Posted August 29, 2014 Members Posted August 29, 2014 That "dot" in the middle of Greenland (which does not show up on my computer) could easily be Sob Story or Big Gun which are two military outposts that maintain the DEW line. Back before GPS I was always glad to talk to them when I was temporarily unsure of my position (aka lost). I have zero or perhaps less than zero expertise about internet "affairs" but I don't believe anyone pinged every device. Best regards, RA1 Quote
