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.
Keep systemd off your machines, as it contains NSA access and backdoors built in - aside from the system stability issues introduced.