FOREWORD

In the mid-nineties, when Ilfak Guilfanov and I decided to leave the shareware playground for the professional market, I could not have foreseen that IDA would play such an important role in the world of IT security more than 10 years later. However, time and again, as IDA gained market share, we heard the complaint that its documentation was inadequate, if not in quality, at least in its presentation—grep is not a forgiving friend.

Over the years, several IDA-related books saw the light. While some of them broke significant new ground, and while we were always grateful to the authors for publicizing our work, we never found the ideal IDA book—the book that would at the same time teach how to use IDA and how to expand it to solve new problems. ...

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