 So it would seem that “discoverable search engines” like Shodan and Thingful pose threats not only to our personal privacy and security, but also to the security of a nation’s critical infrastructure and military defense systems as well. It will be interesting to see whether this relatively new kind of search engine will be used by nation states, and possibly even by terrorist groups as well, in their future strategies and practices affecting cyberwarfare, cyberterrorism, and cyberespionage. It will also be interesting to see whether these search engines, and the companies and organizations that develop them, will need to be closely regulated because of the significant societal threats they now pose. We next examine a related question as to whether search engine companies in general have some special social/moral responsibilities, in light of their important societal roles.