Dan Farmer Quotes

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

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

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• Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that’s because most people there have never seen it get serious.

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• People don’t want to talk about death, just like they don’t want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

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• If you don’t want to deal with them, fine. But don’t hamper other people from dealing with them.

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• I’m bisexual.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don’t have the bandwidth to download all the stuff – the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

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• Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

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• Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

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• You have this enormous network and no one knows what’s out there.

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• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that’s really distasteful to me.

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• People don’t want to talk about death, just like they don’t want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

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

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• If you don’t want to deal with them, fine. But don’t hamper other people from dealing with them.

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Dan Farmer (17)

Birth:	5th April, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Researcher

About

Dan Farmer is an American computer security researcher and programmer who was a pioneer in the development of vulnerability scanners for Unix operating systems and computer networks. Farmer developed his first software suite while he was a computer science student at Purdue University in 1989. Gene Spafford, one of his professors, helped him to start the project. The software, called the Computer Oracle and Password System, comprises several small, specialized vulnerability scanners designed to identify security weaknesses in one part of a Unix operating system.

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