[tptacek]

I would generally agree that writing/manipulating assembly language is a better learning device than black-box reversing (I mentioned reversing because of the context of the article).

But learning to reverse assembly language is also one of those daunting tasks that turns out not to live up to its scary reputation. I wouldn't want to suggest that you can't just dive in and learn to reverse if reversing is your actual goal.

[pbsd]

My bad; I somehow skipped over your paragraph saying to 'dive in', which renders all of my disagreement invalid.

[tptacek]

No, your disagreement is awesome stuff. I'm glad I got you to write it down.