NSA going on a shopping spree..

The NY Times reports that the National Security Agency recently paid a visit to Silicon Valley shopping from what appears new technologies in data mining, a topic near and dear to every liberal's heart. The application itself isn't very new -- take volumes of data, feed it into a database and start to look for correlating events. Cisco and Symantec have entered the network security appliance market with their own data mining appliances which are hyped to take raw system logs from various entry points ( firewall syslog, antivirus and ids alerts ) and weed them out into a "actionable" events for understaffed security teams. And don't forget that auditors will dictate that "evidence" from your million dollar toy will ensure your Fortune 500 company from failing knee jerk, stupid laws that don't even work.