Practical Binary Analysis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First, I want to thank my wife, Noortje, and my son, Sietse, for supporting me while writing this book. It’s been an incredibly hectic time, but you always had my back.

I also want to thank all of the people at No Starch Press who helped make this book a reality, particularly Bill Pollock and Tyler Ortman for giving me the opportunity to pursue this book and Annie Choi, Riley Hoffman, and Kim Wimpsett for their great work in editing and producing this book. Thanks also to my technical reviewers, Thorsten Holz and Tim Vidas, for their detailed feedback that helped improve this book.

Thanks to Ben Gras for his help getting libdft to work on modern Ubuntu; Jonathan Salwan for his feedback on the symbolic execution chapters; and Lorenzo ...