Our guest this week is notorious forensics guru from the UK, Nick Furneaux. Nick discusses with us the magic of API manipulation. He gave us some free “posh” tips for making websites dump the data we want as social engineers. Try these things below: Download and install the Firefox addon - JSONView Try:- https://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=BarackObama https://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=MittRomney http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/ The last one will find all tweets within 2 miles of the GPS coors (central london) that contains the words London Riot. Replace as desired! http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=london%20riot&geocode=51.50733,%20-0.12768,2ml&include_entities=true&result_type=mixed This type of data mining can lead to searchable and impressive results for any social engineer. Follow Nick on his twitter account, NickFX Till next month