NSA photo opp prop, Feds use security portal as if top-sekrit

I found this on Boing Boing. On Jan 26 Bush visited the National Security Agency to help boost morale after the warrantless wiretap issue broke out. So of course on the visit there was a photo op, you can click on the pic here for a larger image. Check out the impressive looking display behind Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the NSA. But rather than being some NSA developed world monitoring device, it's actually the Talisker Security Wizardry Portal which includes DShield world map, a free service sponsored by the SANS Institute that collects internet malicious activity from volunteers.

Good that the NSA uses this stuff, because it's some of the best around, and it's free, but also not as impressive as the photo op might suggest.