A new search engine has come to our attention this week. Not that there is not enough search engines on the web these days, but this one is a little special.

Hackers are used to crawl the web for potential security leaks, but now it seems that someone think that it should be more common to the public to find the same information.

Starting this week SHODAN make there search engine available to the public, i.e. with a few key strokes and common knowledge about internet security your first hacker attempt could be possible.

Example: To find a Linksys router in Denmark that is configured with default username and password takes less then 1 minute.

What the information is going to be used for we can only imagine, but my best guess is that quite a few people would feel tempted to go "all the way"

Is it so hard to do something positive with such a tool? Why not warn the owners of the web sites about the security risk they have - not only to have there own servers and intranets hacked BUT also the security risk they oppose to the complete internet community by allowing botnets and other evil stuff to work from there sites.

At TechnologyCrawler we will try to take the positive approach!
Do any of our readers have good ideas how to approach the problem ?- please leave a comment

Free BI analytics from Danish startup YouCalc.
You can among other things use it as an "add-on" to Google Analytics
Try out the embedded demo

What you get in this release:

• Sync Google Chrome bookmarks across multiple computers in seconds
• 30% increase in speed!

This is a small test of embedding a Wave in a blog, i.e. the readers of Technology Crawler should be able to see realtime editing of the blogpost!!!
There are some minor bugs during the process....but. REMEMBER THIS IS A PREVIEW version of Google Wave, we will get there.
At the moment it seem that it is only possible to see the Wave if you are logged-in with a Wave account, i.e it is not yet public...working on the problem...This is due to the enhancement issue #154...so we have to wait for a solution.

... Until Isue #154 is solved I will temporarily add a desktop recording so that non-Wave members can see what is going on. I have not been so thrilled since I tried the www for the first time...this will be great!!!

Stay tuned :-)

Dear Technology Crawler reader,
I would like to share 10 Google Wave invites to the readers with the best reasons for obtaining one.

Leave your comment incl. your e-mail
PS: If you do not have the time to write a reasonable explanation about your expectations from the invite I will probably disregard your request

Good luck

Finally we got the Google Wave Invite, so stay tuned for a complete report with objective pros and cons.