Dan Farmer

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it…

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

People dont want to talk about death, just like they dont want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named…

— Dan Farmer

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download…

— Dan Farmer

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named…

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

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

— Dan Farmer

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the…

— Dan Farmer

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program…

— Dan Farmer