Cyber Camp Accomplishments

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The GenCyber camp is a gateway to many impactful and important places. The camp could lead me to a career in protecting data and keeping things safe and fairer for all, give me the eustress of a nice challenge, the skills to better able to protect my raspberry pi server, lead me into a place in my high school’s IT, and be a highly enjoyable experience. Programming, exploring software and code, and things of the sort are really fun for me. This camp will be doing software-related activities, and the chance to improve my skills, learn a lot, and overall, just enjoy the connection that I have with software, sounds like a perfect experience for me. I love a good challenge. After looking at your curriculum, I could see that I could learn a lot from this camp—while getting a substantial dose of eustress that I don’t get from other places in my life. I know this camp will help me improve my skills in programming and set up many paths in life for me. I am interested in going into computer science/cybersecurity as a career path. Protecting data, which has become such an important issue in this day and age (such as the Gmail phishing attack, the yahoo account breach), has been something I’ve always been very interested in. I can’t stand it when things are not fair, and black-hat hacking into …show more content…

It does basic merit evaluation through downloading data from yahoo finance in a PHP script, and can also screen for stocks. The one problem through all of this is that the server/webpage is not very protected. Currently, the index.php script has a basic password encryption, which is included in the PHP script, and the raspberry pi does not respond to pings, but there is still more protection that can be done. This camp will help me to be able to protect my own raspberry pi server from attack, and keep hackers from either taking the data or using the raspberry pi against me in any other

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