that sounds fun. what is the thing you're trying to get off their computer?
I'm not a 100% sure, it's like our final lab for the class putting everything we ever did throughout the semester to use. Like I think it's more to see just who can properly secure their computer, I think we need to like try and break the computer so it doesn't work. It was funny the CIO for the school said something explicitly about this class and how there is 0 tolerance for any of this to happen outside of our sandbox area on the actual network.
It seems fun on the surface, but information security is a really tough profession. Requires a ton of knowledge and extremely good problem solving skills, significantly more than needed for just programming.
Yeah once you get into it there is a lot of stuff that you need to know. I never really planned on going into a security related field after school but the degree for it is only like 3 extra classes on top of the comp sci ones, plus understanding the fundamentals of security is always a good thing. One thing that really turned me away from security is how he said almost all of those in the Computer Security field are in more of a support role, also after taking a class that touches on all of the laws, regulations, ethics and other various policies related to proper security it kind of sapped any remaining interest I had in going into the security field for work.
