Get IDA pro and start reversing things with some clear objective. I learned a lot having friends that knew and competing with them to remove limits on commercial software when I was a teenager.
Making trial version complete and so on. Some times it was really easy(just finding a jmp and changing it), other times we had to compare with the complete program, finding code blocks,patching the trial and making all checksums and stuff to work.
None of the software that we cracked was released to the public, it was just for fun.
At the time there was little exercises called "crackme" for exercising your abilities.
It takes at least over a year of work to start being really good at this, and is not like Obj.C, Java or Python, or even c, but way more tedious. Without having friends on this and clear objectives I would had found it boring.
It would be probably a better idea to buy a micro processor and code simple things in assembly, like blinking LEDs.
Making trial version complete and so on. Some times it was really easy(just finding a jmp and changing it), other times we had to compare with the complete program, finding code blocks,patching the trial and making all checksums and stuff to work.
None of the software that we cracked was released to the public, it was just for fun.
At the time there was little exercises called "crackme" for exercising your abilities.
It takes at least over a year of work to start being really good at this, and is not like Obj.C, Java or Python, or even c, but way more tedious. Without having friends on this and clear objectives I would had found it boring.
It would be probably a better idea to buy a micro processor and code simple things in assembly, like blinking LEDs.