The Memory Hole
Information Awareness Office Website Deletes Its Logo
The disappeared logo
The government's Information Awareness Office--you know, the
Defense agency that's running the Total Information
Awareness Program, the huge database that will track
everything about everyone in the US and beyond, helmed by
convicted felon John Poindexter--keeps getting more shy.
First, the IAO took down the biographies of its senior
staff. (The Memory Hole has mirrored them here.)
Now, the IAO has removed its eye-death-ray logo, which was
denounced far and wide as being Orwellian, Masonic, and just
plain creepy as hell.
Above, we've archived the logo's large version. Below, we've
archived the IAO's banner, which used to incorporate the
logo but is now quite plain. (The banner also used to
contain the IAO's slogan, "Scienta est potentia," which is
Latin for, "Knowledge is power.")
The original TIA page (with logo-banner)
The current TIA page (with plain banner)
Thanks to Morgan Woodson for alerting me.
18 Dec 2002 copyright 2002 Russ Kick
The public clamor over the logo got so bad that
DARPA issued a notice of retraction in February
of 2003, and the short-lived logo was abandoned
altogether. [John Paul Jones, 2004]