NSA Hacker Chief Explains How To Keep Him Out of Your System (wired.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Rob Joyce, the nation's hacker-in-chief, took up the ironic task of telling a roomful of computer security professionals and academics how to keep people like him and his elite corps out of their systems. Joyce himself did little to shine a light on the TAO's classified operations. His talk was mostly a compendium of best security practices. But he did drop a few of the not-so-secret secrets of the NSA's success, with many people responding to his comments on Twitter.

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Re: Step 1

[Anonymous Coward]

That's a common myth in Tea Party circles - but there's tons of legal basis for the NSA's activities in the Constitution:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/06/a-constitutional-basis-for-defense

And yes, I feel somewhat dirty for linking to Heritage, but you cannot dismiss them as "liberals".