Python for Secret Agents: Analyze, encrypt, and uncover intelligence data using Python, the essential tool for all aspiring secret agents

Analyze, encrypt, and uncover intelligence data using Python, the essential tool for all aspiring secret agents

Key Features

Build a toolbox of Python gadgets for password recovery, currency conversion, and civic data hacking

Use steganography to hide secret messages in images

Get to grips with geocoding to find villains' secret lairs

Book DescriptionIf you are a Python beginner who is looking to learn the language through interesting projects, this book is for you. A basic knowledge of programming and statistics is beneficial to get the most out of the book.What you will learn

Quickly get to grips with using Python to create tools and solve problems

Manipulate image files and learn how to encode messages into an image using steganography

Gather a file's hidden secrets, such as EXIF data and ZIP archive contents

Build applications that access, filter, and analyze live data from the Web

Design Python modules, libraries, and applications

Customize your Python environment with specialized packages

Extract data using HTTP and FTP internetworking protocols

Who this book is forIf you are a Python beginner who is looking to learn the language through interesting projects, this book is for you. A basic knowledge of programming and statistics is beneficial to get the most out of the book.