Canary is just the name for their nightly release channel, it's been named that for several years. Most people should not use Canary because it's mainly for fin

Canary is just the name for their nightly release channel, it's been named that for several years. Most people should not use Canary because it's mainly for finding bugs before they get sent to the Dev channel. I don't really associate Dart with violence when I hear the word, haven't even consider it until you mentioned it just now. Dart to me (other than just a random short word that was unused and sounds decent) means precision and fast moving. While Google did have gag orders, they did a lot to actually notify users, there were popups that would only appear when users accounts were accessed by someone with unusual permissions, they were the first to provide a transparency report with the numbers of law-enforcement requests (had to use ranges to stay legal but still provide the information). As soon as they found out the NSA was tapping their datacenter fiber connections they started encrypting the traffic and had a press release about it soon after. Yeah, a company as large and powerful as Google is going to have all intelligence agencies pressuring them for information constantly, the worst thing they could do would be being completely silent about it and deny everything, but they haven't done that.