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Goldeneye 64
Goldeneye 64 was released to the Nintendo 64 console system and it's combo pack was the first game system that I personally owned. While this was not the first video game I played it was what pushed me into video gaming as a hobby. -
StarCraft
StarCraft was the first PC game that I started playing, and it is because of this game that I began to spend more time on the computer. This game was the first stepping stone that propeled me into an interest in Computer Science. -
C++
In my Junior year in highschool I took my first programming class where I learned the basics of coding through C++. I had a really good teacher here who was able to make programming exciting to learn and helped to introduce me to programming and cyber security. -
NTP Based Attacks
While I was playing several games in late 2013, many of the servers were being attacked by a unique style ddos attack. The attack used the Network Time Protocol servers to send a amplified DDOS attack at various game servers that I played on. -
Deepweb
Sometime in October 2014, while taking a cyber forensics class, i came across the tor network and began to surf around there. Here I learned more about hacking and groups such as anonymous. This was one of the major pushes for me to go computer science for network security. -
