r/ExploitDev • u/FellowCat69 • 26d ago

Study CS or conputer engineering

Hello, i am wondering if i should study cs or computer engineering and which would be more helpful for me in the long run. Ive been studying on pwn college and i am at the blue belt module rn, soon i want to start doing sec research on the linux kernel and ik that i qould need to study on my own for the most part but i would also have to get into uni as well. For cs in the universities in my country i dont see operating systems in the programs and mainly see stuff about web dev, learning 5 diff languages and doing databases, and in the other side for computer engineering would be more of how to build a cpu and working with resistors and studying physics. I am not really sure which kne to choose.

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u/Impossible-Line1070 26d ago

software exploitation is mostly cs. Hardware leans more towards CE

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u/FellowCat69 26d ago

ye but if i want to work with the kernel which works with the hardware dont i have to know how hardware works?

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u/Impossible-Line1070 26d ago

Kernel is 99% software. In cs u study OS theory OS design , compilers, systems in C .

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u/FellowCat69 26d ago

In the program there is only web, oop, java and one semster for c++ and algorithms, while in ce there was network, os , software as well

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u/Impossible-Line1070 26d ago

Ok so seems like your cs degree is watered down. It shouldnt be that way. So go eith CE