Risky Business · Tuesday, September 29, 2026
HD Moore pointed out that Starlink devices are notably absent from Shodan's dataset, suggesting an exclusion of public data. He revealed that the Starlink IP space appears to be almost entirely composed of Fortnite gateways, which are not indexed by Shodan.
“Another fun thing about Shodan's data set is that there's holes in it. And the holes are really, uh, conspicuous. Like, you'll try to figure out, well, why doesn't Starlink exist in the Shodan data set?”
“So an example of like, interesting, I'll punt get into the punchline, 444,000 is what's there. Uh, but very interesting that like, the Starlink IP space is almost all Fortnite gateways. And it's not in Shodan at all.”