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Python for Secret Agents
by Steven F. Lott
Published by Packt Publishing, 2014
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Python for Secret Agents
Python for Secret Agents
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
1. Our Espionage Toolkit
Getting more tools – a text editor
Confirming our tools
Background briefing – math and numbers
Handling text and strings
Organizing our software
Working with files and folders
Solving problems – recovering a lost password
Summary
2. Acquiring Intelligence Data
Using a REST API in Python
Organizing collections of data
Solving problems – currency conversion rates
Summary
3. Encoding Secret Messages with Steganography
Using the Pillow library
Some approaches to steganography
Detecting and preventing tampering
Solving problems – encrypting a message
Summary
4. Drops, Hideouts, Meetups, and Lairs
Finding out where we are with geocoding services
How close? What direction?
Compressing data to make grid codes
Decoding a GeoRef code
Creating natural area codes
Solving problems – closest good restaurant
Summary
5. A Spymaster's More Sensitive Analyses
Creating Python modules and applications
Creating our own classes of objects
Comparisons and correlations
Writing high-quality software
Solving problems – analyzing some interesting datasets
Summary
Index
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