Firstly, Dominic would like to thank the other authors for their hard work in developing this book; without their contributions it would have been too big a mountain to climb! Dominic would also like to acknowledge the support of his colleagues from MDSec, in particular Marcus Pinto, Dan Brown, Ryan Chell, and Matthew Hickey who worked tirelessly to pick up the slack whilst he was writing this book. He would also like to highlight the great work that the wider security community has done in this field and which provided a foundation for him to expand his knowledge—where applicable, this work has been properly referenced in this book. Dominic is also indebted to the numerous individuals that he has had the pleasure of working with through the years and from who he learnt so much, including Dafydd Stuttard, John Heasman, Peter Winter-Smith, Adam Matthews, Sherief Hammad, and the rest of the team at the old NGS Software. Finally, Dominic would like to thank his parents for everything that they have done and continue to do; their support has been invaluable over the years.
Tyrone would like to acknowledge Daniel and the rest of the team at MWR for tinkering alongside him on Android and sharing their knowledge, as well as Riaan and Harry for supporting him through his career. He would also like to acknowledge his family and friends who keep an active interest in his life and reminded him that there is life beyond his computer screen. Finally, Tyrone would like to thank Dominic for contacting him out of the blue to be a part of the author team!
Shaun would like to thank all the authors of this book in helping to make it a reality; who knows where the idea for this book would be without them. Shaun would also like to thank his colleagues at IOActive for their support while writing this book. He would like to acknowledge all those with whom he has shared in interesting conversations about computer security and other completely unrelated real-life topics, including Dominic Chell, Marcus Pinto, Matthew Hickey, John Heasman, Ilja van Sprundel, Peter Winter-Smith, Ben Harrison-Smith, Vincent Berg, and Shane Macaulay, among others. Finally, Shaun would like to thank his parents, Jill and Andy, his brother Dave, and the rest of his family for their continued support during his career; as well as his friends, just for being awesome mates.
Ollie would like to say thanks to all the security researchers who have published their security research relating to BlackBerry technologies, including Zach Lanier, Ben Nell, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, Shivang Desa, Tim Brown, Alex Plaskett, Daniel Martin Gomez, and Andy Davis. Without the hard work and perseverance of these individuals, public understanding would not be where it is today. He would also like to thank the numerous individuals he’s been lucky enough to work closely with over the years and from whom he learned so much, including Foob, Nathan Catlow, Bambam, Rob Wood, Aaron Adams, Pete Beck, Paul Collett, Paul Ashton, Jeremy Boone, Jon Lindsay, Graham Murphy, and Ian Robertson. Ollie’s final thanks is to Twitter, for providing continual distractions, and Kismet (the cat) for keeping him company on weekends whilst he wrote his chapters.
Finally, as a team, we are grateful to the people at Wiley—in particular, to Carol Long, Sydney Argenta, and the rest of our editorial team. Their help in developing and polishing our manuscript was invaluable, and apologies again for testing our deadlines. In particular, a big apology from Shaun who loves nothing more than leaving everything till the last minute!