PREFACE
The goal of this book is to share the art of hacking
with everyone. Understanding hacking techniques
is often difficult, since it requires both breadth and
depth of knowledge. Many hacking texts seem esoteric
and confusing because of just a few gaps in this prerequisite education. This
second edition of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation makes the world of hacking
more accessible by providing the complete picture—from programming to
machine code to exploitation. In addition, this edition features a bootable
LiveCD based on Ubuntu Linux that can be used in any computer with
anx86 processor, without modifying the computer’s existing OS. This CD
contains all the source code in the book and provides a development and
exploitation environment you can use to follow along with the book’s
examples and experiment along the way.