Computer security exists in several layers. If you know the low-level principles about computers you are able to understand security issues much better.
To give an example; if you don't know anything about assemly, how could you ever prevent bufferoverflows in your code? Even if you program in a higer language such as C of C++.

So a better understanding about low-level languages can be very useful if you are dealing with security.

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