More specifically, knowledge of assembly is crucial for virus/malware research + understanding common program vulnerabilities like buffer overflow. In general, it's just better to have more knowledge regarding every level of abstraction in computer programming, rather than coding in HLL's blindly.
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More specifically, knowledge of assembly is crucial for virus/malware research + understanding common program vulnerabilities like buffer overflow. In general, it's just better to have more knowledge regarding every level of abstraction in computer programming, rather than coding in HLL's blindly.