I think it is worthwhile to understand and steelman Stallman [lolz]:
Stallman is not anti-security and is indeed pro-privacy[1], i.e. you should be able to deploy security systems to keep your data secure from adversaries. However, a security system should be deployed to protect the user from adversaries, not protect admins from the users and give admins power over the user. It's the power asymmetry that is used to oppress the users that bugs him. (In fact, time and time again, the actual security of the system is a joke, as was in his particular story, but nevertheless the boogeyman is there and is set up by the admins to restrict the users.)
Note that we are talking about a different era and deployment of computer systems. I have seen firsthand university systems that are effectively run by students as peers for the most part, but some power-hungry clueless hired admin inevitably comes up and wants to deploy spyware and overprotective policies on the students.
[1]: another example of this is Secure Boot. He has no problem with Secure Boot in principle as long as the keys are under the control of the user, not the manufacturer.
Stallman is not anti-security and is indeed pro-privacy[1], i.e. you should be able to deploy security systems to keep your data secure from adversaries. However, a security system should be deployed to protect the user from adversaries, not protect admins from the users and give admins power over the user. It's the power asymmetry that is used to oppress the users that bugs him. (In fact, time and time again, the actual security of the system is a joke, as was in his particular story, but nevertheless the boogeyman is there and is set up by the admins to restrict the users.)
Note that we are talking about a different era and deployment of computer systems. I have seen firsthand university systems that are effectively run by students as peers for the most part, but some power-hungry clueless hired admin inevitably comes up and wants to deploy spyware and overprotective policies on the students.
[1]: another example of this is Secure Boot. He has no problem with Secure Boot in principle as long as the keys are under the control of the user, not the manufacturer.