RMS famously campaigned against passwords in his early pre-GNU days at MIT (though I'd say his perspective was specific to the computing environment then; it wa

RMS famously campaigned against passwords in his early pre-GNU days at MIT (though I'd say his perspective was specific to the computing environment then; it was more of a matter of how a small group of hackers should cooperate to use an expensive machine, he wanted everyone to have access to everything).