> ... you should know that you're not strictly required to learn it to start experimenting with reverse engineering ... +1. The only assembly I ever learned wa

> ... you should know that you're not strictly required to learn it to start experimenting with reverse engineering ... +1. The only assembly I ever learned was some 6502 assembly many, many years ago, and I didn't even learn that very well. But that didn't prevent me from later figuring out how to "crack" a bunch of BBS door games (with SoftICE for DOS) as a teenager. Hell, I'm not even a real programmer, and I was successful in bypassing the license protections on a (Linux) binary from Cisco a few years ago (although, ultimately, that was just NOP'ing out a "jump") using IDA Pro. That took me maybe 30 minutes to do. Thanks, +Fravia! [0] I am very far from an expert on this stuff but I think that getting started is waaaay easier than people believe. (N.B.: IDA Pro runs on Windows but even works on (Linux) ELF binaries.) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia