Dan Farmer Quotes

People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me.

What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.