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Figure 4. The Censys search results

As it’s shown through the Figure 4 – we would select some of the results leading us to some of the PTT
Net’s web servers. The only thing we could do right here is to examine the details of such an asset. It’s
possible to do so simply clicking on the chosen area. More details about how it looks like are given
through a Figure 5 as follows.

Figure 5. The Censys IP details

It’s quite obvious that this detailed representation would provide us more information what such web
server is about. For instance, we would get more details about its physical location as well as web server’s
administration. We would strongly recommend to everyone wanting to learn more about the crawlers
such as the Shodan and Censys to try to play with them in order to gain more knowledge how they work
and why they are the most sophisticated IoT search engines of today.

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