NSA How-To Guide Perfectly Explains How to Hack Everyone's Google AccountsQuoteA recently released book, Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research, serves as a how to guide of how to set up your own spy agency using nothing more than your computer. The guide provides a terrifying look into how much critical information is just sitting out in the open on the internet and the power of digital tools to unearth it all.
The NSA did not willingly give up the book. It took a Freedom of Information request by the organization MuckRock, who helps activists by filing FOIA requests for a fee, to unearth the book and have it declassified.
QuoteThe guide describes ways to use internet search engines and the internet archive along with other tools. The chapter called Google Hacking however gives up some of the juiciest tidbits however. The guide describes it as such:
"Google (or search engine) hacking" involves using publicly available search engines to access publicly available information that almost certainly was not intended for public distribution. In short, it's using cleaver but legal techniques to find information that doesn't belong on the public Internet."
You can find out more here: http://www.policymic.com/articles/40841/nsa-how-to-guide-perfectly-explains-how-to-hack-everyone-s-google-accounts (http://www.policymic.com/articles/40841/nsa-how-to-guide-perfectly-explains-how-to-hack-everyone-s-google-accounts)
And!, if you really, really want to become the next NSA, here is the link to the book: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf (http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf)
But I don't know anything about that 8) ;D