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A real hacker would tell you that all these books are really not needed. All you need to know is in-and-out of any one os( say windows), and good understanding
by mjawa 12y ago
A real hacker would tell you that all these books are really not needed. All you need to know is in-and-out of any one os( say windows), and good understanding of any one hardware architechture (say x86). Practical reverse engineering\hacking is then about getting your hands dirty by doing things using tools like IDA. What you really need is a very strong intuition and understanding of software upside-down (from hardware instructions to source code and vice versa). There is a reason why practical hacking\reverse engineering is an ART.
- forgottenpass 12y agoFrom the linked page: A real hacker would tell you that all these books are really not needed. Who's saying that these "need" to be read? Maybe the HN title has been changed in the meantime, but this is entirely presented as a list of resources. You're not going to argue against reading books as a component of education, are you? And I don't even want to know where that "real hacker" stuff is coming from. That word hasn't meant anything concrete for over a decade.