What up
not much, how's your day going?
good You?
same I feel so tired from the week, but I'm almost done for the day which is nice
What is your major?
I'm majoring in information systems, you?
CS ISys is legit though
oh wow, so pretty similar!
My assumption is that most people will be in that field on these chats It is where BYU gets the word out
I always tell people that I am in a dumbed down version of CS haha
Different application
Most people I've talked to have been from science majors
ISys is  more people friendly That makes sense Some of the students in the CS realm are...  special...
That's what the tell us! haha yeah some CS people definitely don't have people skills Do you guys joke about that internally within the major?
I do But some of my fellow students don't get it I started with ISys but I got too sick to do the Junior Core
I guess that means you aren't really one of the socially awkward kids then since you can see it oh man, that's a huge bummer!
More flexibility in scheduling with the CS major
how much more school do you have left?
LOL That is a good question ummm... Yes? I have no clue honestly All roads feed into CS 240, and I have no real options until then And I have to take sequential courses until then
Is that discouraging? I feel like I've been in school forever and knowing an end date helps me see the light at the end of the tunnel An ham, I hate classes like that that slow you down!
It is a little discouraging, but after that, I can easily pick up a job as if I had a CS degree
that's the truth
The truth is, once you pass a certain wall, everything else is just a specialty I will focus on Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking
people in IS sometimes have a hard time finding programming jobs because people want CS I'm in a cyber security class right now!
Legit! I love Security!
Our midterm is to hack into a virtual machine and find all its vulnerabilities
oOoOo What are the tools that you can use? Side note, are you thinking about the MISM?
I'm actually a first year MISM student
That makes a lot more sense, I thought that was a MISM thing
for the midterm we have a Kali linux vm and can use nessus, and other different commands from the cmd that let us access ports and stuff
(Cyber Security) Linux is clutch
it's a hard class, but it's cool to see that I am actually doing something legit
Did you guys go over the recent meltdown vulnerability? With the Pentium Processors?
no we haven't what happened?
Basically a huge vulnerability in how multiple paths were calculated before they were executed It took advantage of accessing the memory of certain paths even though specific actions were not taken
oh wow, that sounds bad
We are pretty sure that is what the NSA has been using for years but they won't say anything
that makes sense it seriously blows my mind how vulnerable we are because of technology
They have since patched it and there was a dip in performance output of about 5-30% Technology definitely is a new beast
what made you want to do cyber security?
There is a huge fear in how we will keep things secure when we switch over to a Quantum Computing world I have a long history with Security I was a Marine and it seems to be a passion of mine
i've never heard of quantum computing. what is that? Thanks for your service! My grandpa was a Marine so I have major respect for you guys.
Quantum Computing is a theory right now Basically using  quantum-mechanical principles to do things instead of transitors It would drastically reduce speeds *computing speeds
why would you want it if it reduced speed?
Which would mean that the securities we have in place right now which would take years upon years to brute force penetrate would be reduced to almost zero I should have said time =P not speed
ohh ok that makes more sense that's really interesting
Well Brooke, it has been nice, but sadly I have to get to class You have a good one =D
thanks, you too!