New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
Link-baity title, but warranted, I'd say.<p>The story is that the government is launching a spy satellite with a logo on it featuring a "mascot" -- a giant Kraken-like octopus taking over the planet. Whoever created it could only have been thinking of their bureau's unchecked ability to do what it wanted and not the public's perception of it because the creature, especially its eye, looks menacing, ominous, foreboding, malicious, malevolent, and borderline evil. It implies the agency is insular, unaccountable, and has an aggressive, secret agenda it cares about more than anything else, certainly more than your privacy or the consequences of its actions.<p>The kicker is a comment that juxtaposes the logo with a warning illustration saying "Know your communist enemy" with a nearly-identical logo, presumably implying an evil enemy from the Cold War, which we have become.<p>The government octopus looks like the Kraken on the top of the wikipedia page -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken</a> -- except the government one is planet-sized and its eyes seem to have more evil intent, to me, at least.