  Shodan, a controversial search engine created by John Matherly in 2009, enables users to find specific types of (Internet-connected) computers, devices, and systems (including servers and routers), via globally located servers that index the internet continuously.  Shodan has been described both as a “dark Google” and the “scariest search engine ever” because it could be used to locate components in a nation’s critical infrastructure as well as its military defense system, including the “command and control systems for nuclear power plants and particle-accelerating cyclotrons” (Goldman 2013). Some have even suggested that Shodan was used to locate and monitor major components in Iran’s controversial nuclear program (Charette 2012). This has also led to speculation that Shodan may have assisted the (then secret) “Olympic Games Operation” allegedly carried out by the U.S. and Israel to cause Iran’s centrifuges—i.e., fast-spinning machines that enrich uranium—to spin out of control (O’Harrow 2012).  While some might be inclined to argue that nations such as the U.S and Israel would have been justified in using whatever cyber-related means they had at their disposal to disrupt the progress of Iran’s nuclear program, we can clearly see the downside of such a practice; i.e., it could also be adopted by so-called “rogue nations” and used against “legitimate” nation states.