[e12e]

To further fan the embers of your fear, please enjoy:

[edit: title of link "Logo of New NRO Spy Satellite: An Octopus Engulfing the World with the Words “Nothing is Beyond Our Reach” Underneath"] http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/new-u-s-spy-satellite-...

and:

["Top 10 Most Sinister PSYOPS Mission Patches"] http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/top-10-most-sinist...

I find it interesting (and sad) how the last few months have shifted my perspective on Bruce Sterling's "Zenith Angle" from leaning more towards satire, to leaning more towards hard sci-fi/telling the "truth" with fiction.

[pekk]

The thread about that patch discussed how typical it is to have crazy over-the-top patches, it's not new at all

[e12e]

I wasn't aware there was a tread on the satellite patch on hn, but seeing how it was featured on Ars Technica, I'm not surprised:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6880117

The second link is based on a book from 2007 that used FOIA requests to be able to study the patches, so part of the point is that it's nothing new...

Anyway, I don't fall into the camp that takes the patches very seriously -- in general, anything a covert organization/project projects about itself is bound to be either propaganda or misinformation.