Most of the covers of 2017 had themes of dissent, along with a healthy dose of utter incompetence and neglect.

Spring:  The Flag.  A silhouette of a woman in a burka holding a small child and carrying luggage is being stopped by a silhouette of a man looking through a smartphone in front of a barbed wire fence.  This is a "fake news" reference to the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim tone of the incoming Trump administration that never came to fruition.

On the other side of the fence there is a "DON'T TREAD ON ME"-style flag that says "Cifrado Prohibido" or "Encryption Prohibited," a reference to what the authorities wished was the case with smartphones and computers, based on their recent actions and comments.

In the distance, there is construction equipment digging up dirt (ostensibly for the new border wall), along with a silhouette of a woman and child running - part of a famous image from a road sign near the American/Mexican border which warned of illegal aliens crossing a highway.

There is a drone in the air surveilling the scene and the clouds are bleeding, a reference to the infamous Cloudbleed security bug that had recently affected Cloudflare's reverse proxies.

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