&gt;In his talks the founder says he provides law enforcement with all the crawled data for free<p>Why is this a good thing?<p>Isn&#x27;t it like trying every door in a neighbourhood and handing the FBI a list of all the properties that have been left unlocked?<p>Oh - and there&#x27;s that very useful exploit dictionary too.<p>I ban all the shodan IPs I can find as a matter of policy.