On: X86_64 Assembly Language and Shellcoding on Linux

[adamnemecek]

probably because virus writers/analysts are the only group of people who spend significant parts of their job screwing around in assembly.

[tptacek → adamnemecek]

Yes. And it's been like this since the early 1990s, when a good chunk of all the people who bought the MASM bible did so to learn how to write viruses.