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Stallman's null-string crusade would prove ultimately
futile. By the early 1980s, even the AI Lab's machines
were sporting password-based security systems. Even so,
it represents a major milestone in terms of Stallman's
personal and political maturation. To the objective
observer familiar with Stallman's later career, it
offers a convenient inflection point between the timid
teenager afraid to speak out even on issues of
life-threatening importance and the adult activist who
would soon turn needling and cajoling into a full-time
occupation.
In voicing his opposition to computer security,
Stallman drew on many of the forces that had shaped his
early life: hunger for knowledge, distaste for
authority, and frustration over hidden procedures and
rules that rendered some people clueless outcasts. He
would also draw on the ethical concepts that would
shape his adult life: communal responsibility, trust,
and the hacker spirit of direct action. Expressed in
software-computing terms, the null string represents
the 1.


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