NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System

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http://www.wired.com/2016/01/nsa-hacker-chief-explains-how-to-keep-him-out-of-your-system/

By Kim Zetter
Security
Wired.com
1/28/2016

IT WAS THE talk most anticipated at this year’s inaugural Usenix Enigma 
security conference in San Francisco and one that even the other speakers 
were eager to hear.

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 is head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations—the government’s top 
hacking team who are responsible for breaking into the systems of its 
foreign adversaries, and occasionally its allies. He’s been with the NSA 
for more than 25 years but only became head of the TAO division in April 
2013, just weeks before the first leaks from Edward Snowden were published 
by the Guardian and Washington Post.

Joyce acknowledged that it was “very strange” for someone in his position 
to stand onstage before an audience. The TAO has largely existed in the 
shadowy recesses of the NSA—known and unknown at the same time—until only 
recently when documents leaked by Snowden and others exposed the workings 
of this cabal as well as many of its sophisticated hacking tools.

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