25 Quotes by Dan Farmer

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

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.

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.