John Matherly is the founder and CEO of Shodan, the first comprehensive search engine of devices connected to the Internet. John, born in Switzerland, graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, with research done in the field of hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Prior to creating Shodan, John worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center as a programmer/ analyst on the Protein Data Bank project. The idea of Shodan was born in 2003, and it has evolved into a tool that searches for and catalogs every IP address on the Internet, ranging from individual home desktops to industrial automation systems. Shodan also performs automatic Internet-wide surveys, analyses large amounts of data and makes security tools more accessible to the community.
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