Dan Farmer (born April 5, 1962) is a computer security researcher. In a summer course in 1989, in order to graduate from Purdue University he started the development of the COPS program for identifying security issues on Unix systems under Gene Spafford, first releasing it after leaving Purdue in late 1989. In 1995, he and Wietse Venema created Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN), one of the earliest network based vulnerability scanners. Wikipedia
The security guru and fiercely independent creator of free software tool SATAN explains why he teamed up with VCs to launch Elemental Software. www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/apr2005/nf2005045_34...
That stark aphorism sums up Dan Farmer's philosophy of security on computer networks as well as his views on sex and mortality. ... www.svn.net/datamonk/sjmn.05.04.95.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Dan Farmer. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Farmer
Guests include Dan Farmer, author of SATAN and COPS; Eliaz Levi (aka Aleph 1), webmaster of underground.org and Bugtraq; also "Omega" and "White Knight" from Cult of the Dead Cow. www.archive.org/details/nc101_hackers
