Matsuda Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 President Obama is out to put the public's mind at ease about new revelations on intelligence-gathering, but the Office for the Director of National Intelligence can't quite seem to get with the program of calming everyone down.Over the weekend, the ODNI was pumping up the launch of a new surveillance satellite launched by the National Reconnaissance Office. The satellite was launched late Friday night and the ODNI's Twitter feed posted photos and video of the launch on Saturday.Unmistakable was the new NRO logo that goes with this satellite: "Nothing is Beyond Our Reach," it says, featuring an octopus with its arms wrapped around the globe.It's the kind of picture that you might think up if you were devising an emblem for a villain in a superhero movie."NROL-39 is represented by the octopus, a versatile, adaptable, and highly intelligent creature," an NRO spokeswoman told Forbes on Friday before launch. "Emblematically, enemies of the United States can be reached no matter where they choose to hide."While the NRO might be thinking that the octopus represents versatility and intelligence, the mysterious creature has often been used as a symbol for a scary, evil kind of intelligence in popular culture. In the James Bond movie series, the organization long serving as Bond's archenemy was named SPECTRE, had a black octopus logo, and ran an underwater black market called The Octopus. In later movies, SPECTRE simply changed its name to OCTOPUS.In any case, emphasizing that "nothing is beyond our reach" is not necessarily the image the government may want to be sending out right now, with many in Congress considering reeling in data-gathering. The octopus is, at best, an untimely selection. "You may want to downplay the massive spying dragnet thing right now," tweeted privacy activist Chris Soghoian once it was published Friday. "This logo isn't helping."Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 (edited) . Edited April 28, 2019 by CODYQX4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janedoe Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Wow, hard to believe that logo and especially that slogan is not a joke. It was already evident, but quite clearly they care nothing at all about public sentiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrbingStorm Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Yeah I think they have all lost the plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) is this real or an urban legend or hoax the logo looks to be photoshopped???????? Edited December 10, 2013 by dMog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janedoe Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 is this real or an urban legend or hoax the logo looks to be photoshopped????????That's what I thought so too at first, but the source (Ars Technica) is very reliable, plus the images are from the official ODNI Twitter feed. These guys are truly shameless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 wow,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 i actually quite like the logo and the slogan really strikes the mind, it just comes out at a very bad time with all the NSA leaks.The end of that sentence - It's the kind of picture that you might think up if you were devising an emblem for a villain in a superhero movie - should make any proud American think twice about what his beloved country is doing abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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