Free BSD is a great operating system.
So is macOS.
But they are American. As are Chrome, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, DOS, iOS, Android and the hundreds of variations of Linux and Unix and what ever else that is running the old mainframes and servers. They all have back doors. So America can control what comes and goes. America also decides who gets what domain. All the internet protocols. The Americans own or control all international undersea internet cables (Facebook, Google, Amazon and so on). And in the sky - Starlink. The data entry / exit points (Data Centre's) in most countries are also owned by American or Israeli companies (for example Bulk Infrastructure Group or Green Mountain). All of this and more means that everything in the digital world is under surveillance by you know who (ask Edward Snowden). Much in the same way America eves dropped on all our telephone conversations with Echelon (for example Shoal Bay station).
Why has nobody tried to make something new, not riddled with back doors? That is because this would not be accepted under the “rules based law” of the 5 eyes. See what happened to Huawei or what USA is doing to Tik Tok today. They do not have a back door in it so they are going to banish it to the side lines of history.
I would like an independent operating system outside the smothering American octopus arms. Why has China, Russia, Iran, Brazil, North Korea or South Africa not done it? Yes I know that Russia has Astra, China has Kylin and so on, but they are all just versions of Linux. The European Union is wasting so much time and money chasing for example Apple and Google with their market place monopoly bullshit or enforcing Apple to use USB-C cables even though most cheap Asian electronics still use USB-A, instead of urging the Europeans to make something for themselves. They are just wasting our money for their own political ends.
Maybe the bullies in America with all their sanctions and boycotts will force more countries to make their own operating systems. Like Chinese Huawei who has made HarmonyOS (sort of). I would use any system that is comprised of only Chinese designed and made parts. Everything from laptops and printers to routers and smartphones including all software and of course an operating system. It is the only way to avoid the American backdoors. Who knows maybe artificial intelligence can be used to build new systems in the future. One can only hope.
The 5 eyes at it again.
The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud. The undisclosed order is said to have been issued last month, and requires that Apple creates a back door that allows UK security officials unencumbered access to encrypted user data worldwide – an unprecedented demand not before seen in any other democratic country. In the USA they have had since 2018 the “The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act” which allows U.S. law enforcement agencies to access data stored overseas by U.S.-based technology companies when investigating serious crimes (and who decides what that means?). In other words England wants to do what USA already does - just a little more “blatantly obvious”. An Apple spokesperson declined to comment on the revelation, though the law actually makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government even made such a demand.
