Why OpenBSD Is Important to Me
I am an OpenBSD user, there is no OS I&#x27;d rather use currently (obviously) and I am sure there is no OS with a greater focus on security and clean code, the project as a whole deserves a great deal of respect and admiration for setting the bar when it comes to security, and for being the originator of great products that are used outside the boundaries of OpenBSD itself, however (with all due respect) what the author portrays here is paranoid philosophical mumbo-jumbo I&#x27;m normally used to from radical FSF-devotees.<p>Yes, there are NSA scandals, yes, the US government has repeatedly overstepped boundaries, yes, caution and scepticism is a very healthy and good thing, but on the other hand there are GNU&#x2F;Linux distributions taking security somewhat seriously, they have to, they too work with open source code, have a lot of users, and review said code, I doubt someone is interested in your specific data, I doubt using a GNU&#x2F;Linux distribution or some other BSD OS is some risk one shouldn&#x27;t take, I doubt we should all have to automatically strive for an &quot;ethical&quot; all Free Software life or otherwise we are in risk of somehow being under totalitarian control, I doubt Apple and Microsoft are totally out to get you and by definition filled with evil backdoors the NSA uses to spy on _everyone_... I doubt they only do malicious things,... and talking about security, it&#x27;s not all in the Software, a lot is in users&#x27; behaviour... not talking about him specifically, but &quot;We are all spied on by the NSA, please like me on Instagram and follow me on Facebook for hourly updates on my life so we can join in the fight against totalitarian control&quot;...<p>As you have guessed by now I am some kind of allergic to this... those idealistic over-simplifications... drawing everything in black and white...<p>Some of the OS X users I know are incredible technology-orientated and privacy concerned people, should I draw the conclusion they are being overly naive by not using OpenBSD for everything? I don&#x27;t think so, they are just not suffering from paranoia, are pragmatic and living in the real world...