I don't think OpenBSD is communist or far-left. You obviously can't write correct complete code while high on drugs, but at the same time, there are too many European and Canadian drug dealers in the community.
OpenBSD itself is openly published and free to use but the intent with the use of strong cryptography is all about privacy and private property. The concern of communism and universal state surveillance is the use of the NSA-approved weak ciphers which have become standardized in the industry, although that appears to be somewhat outside the scope of the OpenBSD project itself. NSA at its two known locations of Ft. Meade, Maryland and Camp Williams, Utah is focused very much on unwarranted domestic intelligence surveillance for local law enforcement purposes within the United States, and in UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand as well, coincidentally all English speaking nations, through the FVEY or "Five Eyes" intelligence surveillance and law enforcement community treaty. James Bamford's descriptions apply. The emphasis on building up "local" law enforcement and excluding other national level agencies such as FBI/DEA/RCMP etc. is because the petty red-light district criminal cases typically brought against targeted individuals with warrantless NSA surveillance intelligence don't make it in federal court without proper warrants based upon probable cause with the sworn testimony of witnesses. Then there are the child pornography and/or other white collar criminal "indictments" etc., where the grand jury (if it was ever actually convened) was never allowed to see the purported evidence or judge its appropriateness — but somehow rank-and-file NSA employees are. Imperial Russian style crypto export controls and tariffs etc. On October 6, 2025 4:58:35 AM AKDT, Charles <[email protected]> wrote: >It was only today that I learned about one of OpenBSD's goals >which is to not be political. Such progressive changes are >definitely not technical and now I've learned it doesn't >make any sense under their goals. > >And to be clear, I am not out here to make OpenBSD some >communist far-left project.
