John Carmack mentioned Ada in the 2011 QuakeCon Q&A session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Q9-ftiPVQ#t=822s

I have been using Ada for the last 5 years professionally and for my personal project. Most of them can be found here http://www.codelabs.ch/ or here http://git.codelabs.ch/.

Google acquired Android Inc in 2005, so development had started before Sun opened up Java, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system).

The Guardian Project is an effort to increase the security of Android. A quote from the website:

https://guardianproject.info/

Here is a link to their February project update to give you an idea what they are working on: https://guardianproject.info/2012/02/09/february-2012-project-update/

Yes, that also raises the question why you read/answer encryption worthy emails via webmail but I would argue it is still an improvement that your key does not need to leave your machine.

Encrypting mails you send via webmail without having copy your keys on the server sounds like reasonable usecase.

He makes some interesting points on EFF's SSL Observatory mailinglist: https://mail1.eff.org/pipermail/observatory/2011-March/000138.html

Hi, check out the guardian project http://guardianproject.info/ which is aimed at mobile security for Android.

Yesterday Tiffany Strauchs Rad who describes herself as a "hacker lawyer" gave a related talk at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4236.en.html Recordings of this talk should be available soon. At the end of her talk where a similar question was asked and her answer was more or less: "follow me on twitter (TiffanyRad)".

You get what the subsystem maintainers merge into their trees and what Linus in turn merges into his tree so...

Let's hope TPB have a better plan than to hand over their whites as ransom money...

Yes, officially it's "Linus 2.6.29-rc4" see http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/8/129 ;)