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Reproduced by kind permission of John Wiley & Sons.

===Craig Heath, Lead Author===

Craig has been working in IT security since 1988, holding positions at
the Santa Cruz Operation as security architect for SCO UNIX, and at
Lutris Technologies as security architect for the Enhydra Enterprise Java
Application Server. He joined Symbian in 2002, working in product
management and strategy.

A member of The Open Group Security Forum (originally the X/Open
Security Working Group) since 1993, sitting on the Steering Committee
since 1999, he has contributed to several published security standards.
These include XBSS (baseline system security requirements), XDAS (distributed
audit) and XSSO (single sign-on). He has also participated in
standards work within POSIX, IETF, the Java Community Process, and
the Open Mobile Alliance. He graduated from the University of Warwick
with a BSc. in computer science in 1984.

Craig is co-author of [http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/g031.htm Security Design Patterns] and lead author of [http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/g052.htm The Open Group Guide to Digital Rights Management].

===Andy Harker===

With an honors degree in Electronic Systems, Andy has spent the last 17
years working in the telecommunications software arena on projects as
diverse as FDDI-2, mobile presence and availability systems, distributed
real-time middleware, and optical switching.

He joined Symbian in 2002, and designed and developed the Digital
Rights Management infrastructure (Content Access Framework). He is
now a Senior Technical Architect in the Crypto Services technology
area which provides cryptographic, key and certificate management,
authentication and software installation services into Symbian OS.

In his spare time, Andy enjoys tinkering with 3D-graphics rendering.
When he wants to get away from a keyboard completely, he looks after
400 liters of water – complete with tropical fish. Occasionally, he also
visits bigger fish in their native habitat if he’s lucky enough to be away
diving with his partner Rebecca and his SCUBA buddies.

===Geoff Preston===

Geoff joined Symbian in 2000 from Vodafone to lead the Product Test
organization. Following a move toMarketing, Geoff introduced Symbian’s
Catalyst program, working with a range of partners to develop compelling
third-party applications on top of Symbian OS. Recently, Geoff and his
team have developed and delivered the industry-leading certification
program, Symbian Signed. Geoff’s background in mobile telephony,
network topologies and operations mean he is actively involved with
Symbian’s operating partners and related standards forums.

Geoff studied in Hull, then lived in the Middle East, Far East and North
America working on a range of communications systems. Geoff joined
Motorola to work on their new GSM infrastructure and then joined a
small UK network operator (Racal–Vodafone) to launch their new GSM
network.

Geoff lives in Wiltshire and is married to Anne with whom he has a
daughter, Thea.

===Jonathan Dixon===

Jonathan has spent the last seven years working for Symbian developing
software in a range of technology areas and roles. After spending two
years developing Symbian’s Bluetooth and infrared protocol stacks, he
spent a period researching a redesign of the Socket Server architecture
that subsequently debuted in Symbian OS v9. For two years he worked
as a Senior Technical Consultant within Symbian’s Professional Services
department, helping Symbian’s licensees to ship mobile phone products
such as the Sony Ericsson P910i, and the Motorola A1000. In the last 15
months, he has been working as a System Architect with an instrumental
role in realizing Symbian’s Platform Security implementation.

Jonathan graduated with a first class MEng. in Information Systems
Engineering from Imperial College, London. He is a keen skier and
cyclist, and spends whatever time he can cycle-touring or on long
distance journeys with his wife Emma, and their beloved tandem, Dobbin.
Jonathan thanks Keith Robertson for giving him so much to write about,
teaching him how to approach it, and then letting him get on with it.

===Mark Shackman===

Mark graduated with a first class honors degree in Computing Studies,
followed by a Masters in Digital Systems and finally a Postgraduate
Certificate of Education. After six years of teaching and a spell at Morgan
Stanley, he joined Psion Software in 1997 as a Technical Author working
on SDK content and installation technologies.

After the formation of Symbian,Mark joined the Connectivity Engineering
group, with sole responsibility for authoring, producing, delivering
and supporting the Connectivity SDK. He also wrote a chapter in Symbian’s
first book, Professional Symbian Programming. In 2001, Mark
moved to the Kits team, becoming Technical Architect shortly afterwards,
with the responsibility of introducing both the new Package Manager Kit
format and subsequently the Component-Based Releases.

Mark transferred to the Symbian DeveloperNetwork in 2004, providing
technical support to developers in the form of presentations, papers, books
and tools.

Mark thanks Stephen Mansfield for review comments and corrections,
and both Stephen and Jonathan Dixon for providing technical
advice and suggestions. Thanks also to Colin Turfus and the Symbian
Developer Network team for their ongoing support and to Hashem for
everything else.

===Matthew Allen===

Matthew started work over a quarter of a century ago using 6th Edition
Unix on a minicomputer, and punched cards and JCL on a mainframe.
He has been working at the leading edge of technology ever since.
Before joining Symbian’s Security team in 2003, he worked on projects
as varied as directory enquiry systems, Unix kernel ports, free space
optical links, distributed processing frameworks, SS7 call processing and
compiler development.

Matthew studied at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he gained
an MA.

Matthew would like to thank both his father for bringing him up and
his wife for putting up with the result.

===Michael Bruce===

In 1996 Michael Bruce graduated with an honors degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia).
After several years working on process automation in the manufacturing
sector he emigrated to the UK, joining Symbian’s Networking team in
2002. Later, after moving to the Security Team, he was one of the
developers involved in the implementation of the new Platform Security
Software Install. Recently he has moved to Marketing and has been
responsible for providing the tools required by Symbian Signed to support
Symbian OS v9.

When Michael is not at work he enjoys traveling, preferably to somewhere
with snow so that he can pursue his passion for skiing.

===Phil Spencer===

Phil’s involvement with Symbian OS began with its predecessor, which
powered the original Psion PDAs. As one of the most successful authors
of Psion ‘shareware’ in the early 1990s, Phil took a work experience
position at Psion Software during the summer of 1998. One year later,
having finishing his A Levels, he accepted a job as a ‘Developer Consultant’
at the newly-formed Symbian during his ‘year out’ before university.
Responsible for providing support, advice and guidance to third party
developers, Phil decided to extend his ‘year out’ to two years, and eventually
began his Economics degree at the London School of Economics in
September 2000, whilst continuing to work for Symbian.

Phil graduated with a BSc. Econ. (Hons) in summer 2004 and returned
full-time to Symbian to become Head of Developer Content, managing
the team responsible for delivering the necessary documentation and
support to make Symbian OS accessible to developers, and ensuring
compelling and innovative applications are available for Symbian OS
phones.

Phil currently lives in London and outside work his biggest interest is
travel. Phil would like to thank his close colleagues at Symbian and the
Symbian Press team not only for providing much support and amusement,
but also for helping him to retain a small degree of sanity whilst juggling
work and study at university!

===Simon Higginson===

Simon Higginson joined Symbian’s Technical Training Team as a Senior
Developer Consultant in 1999. He has helped author a number of training
courses for Symbian OS, including, most recently, a platform security
course. His experience covers 19 years in the IT industry, working as a
software developer for GST Professional Services and then consultant for
Origin Automation Technology on the Cambridge Science Park.

Simon started his computing career on the York University computer
while at school; after which he went on to read Natural Sciences
and Computer Science at Churchill College, Cambridge. While writing
Chapter 2 of this book, Simon amazingly found time to stand for the UK
Parliament, and thanks the people of King’s Lynn for giving him time to
finish the job, by electing someone else!

===Will Palmer===

Will started working for Symbian in June 2000; firstly as a developer in
local synchronization to the PC, then moving into remote synchronization
development implementing SyncML. He stayed in this field while
progressing from programmer through Technical Lead to Technology
Architect, and also gained experience of OMA Device Management as
a related technology. He is currently a Systems Architect specializing in
device and settings management.

Will studied Electronic Engineering at Oxford Polytechnic, before
training as a C++ programmer. He worked for a telematics company
that sells vehicle-tracking software – developing the PC client–server
architecture and also software for in-vehicle hand-held devices – before
moving to Symbian to further his interest in telecommunications.

Will liked to travel until family life got the better of him. He is
now blessed with two young sons who have helped him hone the
communication and negotiation skills he needs in his professional life.

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 Our partners and customers who contributed to the design, including
-from Nokia, Timo Heikkinen, Janne Uusilehto and Antti V¨ah¨a-Sipila; from
+from Nokia, Timo Heikkinen, Janne Uusilehto and Antti Vähä-Sipila; from
-Sony-Ericsson, Johan Alm; from UIQ,Matthias Reik; from Vodafone, Steve
+Sony-Ericsson, Johan Alm; from UIQ, Matthias Reik; from Vodafone, Steve
-Babbage and Tim Wright; from France Telecom, Didier B´egay; and from
+Babbage and Tim Wright; from France Telecom, Didier Bégay; and from
 Orange, Tim Haysom.

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 deserve the bulk of the credit for the features this book describes. Other
 contributors from Symbian who had a significant influence on the design
-include Will Bamberg, Jonathan Harris and Dennis May. Credit is also
+include Will Bamberg, Jonathan Harris, Dennis May and Jonathan Webb. Credit is also
 due to the many Symbian engineers who worked on the implementation,
 integration and testing who are too numerous to list individually.
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 and Phil Spencer who did most of the hard work.
-My manager, Richard Wloch, and my co-authors’ managers’, Tim
+My manager, Richard Wloch, and my co-authors’ managers, Tim
 Bentley, Bruce Carney, Simon Garth, and Neil Hepworth for allowing us
 to devote significant amounts of our work days to preparing this book.

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 Craig has been working in IT security since 1988, holding positions at
-the Santa Cruz Operation as security architect for SCO UNIX, and at
+the Santa Cruz Operation as security architect for SCO U<small>NIX</small>, and at
 Lutris Technologies as security architect for the Enhydra Enterprise Java
 Application Server. He joined Symbian in 2002, working in product
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 Matthew started work over a quarter of a century ago using 6th Edition
-Unix on a minicomputer, and punched cards and JCL on a mainframe.
+U<small>NIX</small> on a minicomputer, and punched cards and JCL on a mainframe.
 He has been working at the leading edge of technology ever since.
 Before joining Symbian’s Security team in 2003, he worked on projects
-as varied as directory enquiry systems, Unix kernel ports, free space
+as varied as directory enquiry systems, U<small>NIX</small> kernel ports, free space
 optical links, distributed processing frameworks, SS7 call processing and
 compiler development.

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 Reproduced by kind permission of John Wiley & Sons.
 ===Craig Heath, Lead Author===
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 now blessed with two young sons who have helped him hone the
 communication and negotiation skills he needs in his professional life.

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