I think some of the best hackers are self taught. The US university system is a racket, and I have 10 books I could recommend that would teach you more.
If you have recommendations for books on amd64 assembly -- ideally ones that focus on running under a free Unix stack (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) rather than a Microsoft stack where the books address such things -- I'd love to see them. I did a very little bit of playing with real mode x86 assembly back when MS-DOS was my day-to-day OS, but that's a mite dated now.
