US spy agency adopts globe-encircling giant octopus as new logo

It’s odd that I don’t feel that comforted by our new eagle overlords.

Eagles actually miss in two of three strikes on the prey, prefer eating carcasses (same protein, less fighting back), and generally avoid fighting anything bigger than themselves.
Quite fitting for the behavior of superpowers.

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This makes a significant percentage of geeks not employed by the NSA/NRO hate said organization at sight.

(Yes, it’s just a mission patch. But the reaction is the same.)

And there is a big rule: you do NOT upset the geeks. For they wield powers to change the very rules of the game.

For me, the very look of the logo brings the visceral reaction of “fuck off!”, and the associated thinking of how to exploit the limitations of their capabilities to piss into their beer. If possible in a globally reproducible ways. Things like radio steganography on Raspberry Pi (-oid) platform, or a phone app that shows the positions of suspect and known spy sats (amateur astronomers worldwide enjoy tracking “unknown objects” and matching them to launches) in augmented-reality way (and warns ahead of their arrival), using GNU-Radio (RTL-SDR with downconverters) to detect radar-equipped spy sats (or do amateur radioastronomy), etc, etc, etc.

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Too late; they already did. And a few may be amused by the idea of the NSA as a Cthulhoid cult.

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