No need to feel bad, I used to get a lot of snarking for being a Stallman fan. It is a basic principle of security to assume that any power an adversary has, w

No need to feel bad, I used to get a lot of snarking for being a Stallman fan. It is a basic principle of security to assume that any power an adversary has, will be used against one's interests. People misunderstand this; I have seen it called a fallacy. But it's not a claim that it's always true, rather that it's what one must assume in order to have the best practicable assurance of security /privacy. I also used to get arguments like "MS/GOogle/$_BIG_TECH_CO wouldn't use their power against customers, it would be bad for business" or "...it would be illegal" or similar. The correct answer is that prudence dictates assuming the worst. Well, maybe I was too cynical, but it's hard to keep up with how bad things really are.