I consider Apple to be the only respectable bigtech left, that said, I can't avoid to make the following reasoning:
- Apple is US-based, therefore subject to PRISM (and any other surveillance program we don't know about)
- There's a long record of companies going rogue on users for legal reasons
- Apple makes macOS
- macOS is not fully open-source
This means that there's the possibility of macOS turning it's back on users, and that would make me refuse macOS if I were the target of someone with enough money and time.
On why OpenBSD, it's because of it's excellent track of security vulnerabilities (only 2 in 20+ years).
Tails and Qubes are also great, but they haven't been out there for as long as OpenBSD has and I think the BSDs deserve some more love.
Edit: CoreOS has some great security features too, such as a read-only /usr. I also believe ChromeOS has some similar features.
- Apple is US-based, therefore subject to PRISM (and any other surveillance program we don't know about)
- There's a long record of companies going rogue on users for legal reasons
- Apple makes macOS
- macOS is not fully open-source
This means that there's the possibility of macOS turning it's back on users, and that would make me refuse macOS if I were the target of someone with enough money and time.
On why OpenBSD, it's because of it's excellent track of security vulnerabilities (only 2 in 20+ years). Tails and Qubes are also great, but they haven't been out there for as long as OpenBSD has and I think the BSDs deserve some more love.
Edit: CoreOS has some great security features too, such as a read-only /usr. I also believe ChromeOS has some similar features.