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Python for Secret Agents

By : Steven F. Lott, Steven F. Lott
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Python for Secret Agents

By: Steven F. Lott, Steven F. Lott

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Python for Secret Agents
Steven F. Lott | Steven F. Lott
Aug, 2014 | 216 pages
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Python for Secret Agents
Python for Secret Agents
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Our Espionage Toolkit
Our Espionage Toolkit
Getting the tools of the trade – Python 3.3
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
Acquiring Intelligence Data
Accessing data from the Internet
Using a REST API in Python
Organizing collections of data
Solving problems – currency conversion rates
Summary
3
Encoding Secret Messages with Steganography
Encoding Secret Messages with Steganography
Background briefing – handling file formats
Using the Pillow library
Some approaches to steganography
Detecting and preventing tampering
Solving problems – encrypting a message
Summary
4
Drops, Hideouts, Meetups, and Lairs
Drops, Hideouts, Meetups, and Lairs
Background briefing – latitude, longitude, and GPS
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
A Spymaster's More Sensitive Analyses
Creating statistical summaries
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
Index

Credits

Author

Steven F. Lott

Reviewers

Nick Glynn

Steven Heinrich

Sanjeev Jaiswal

Maurice HT Ling

Acquisition Editor

Sam Wood

Content Development Editor

Prachi Bisht

Technical Editors

Veena Pagare

Anand Singh

Copy Editors

Insiya Morbiwala

Sayanee Mukherjee

Deepa Nambiar

Karuna Narayanan

Adithi Shetty

Laxmi Subramanian

Project Coordinator

Sageer Parkar

Proofreaders

Ameesha Green

Samantha Lyon

Indexers

Hemangini Bari

Rekha Nair

Graphics

Sheetal Aute

Production Coordinator

Nilesh R. Mohite

Cover Work

Nilesh R. Mohite

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