A Jinteki workhorse, and one of the finer pieces of ICE printed in faction. This ICE is deceptively powerful and it's subroutines can actually do effective work on any of your centrals. Some of the high points of Yagura include:

• Sneaky: Due to the high danger of hand loss when running on face-down Jinteki ICE, a great many Anarch and Criminal runners without access to Self-modifying Code will attempt to find and install their Killer before checking unrezzed ICE. Yagura is a Code Gate, which when deployed in-faction means that it's subroutines have a very good likelihood of firing when first rezzed due to the misdirection that the threat of Komainu and Tsurugi present.
• Efficient: Has a high Break-to-Rez cost ratio (2:1) against nearly all standard Decoders, meaning it is economically very effective for the price should the runner wish to break it's subroutines. Fortunately, Yagura's subroutines are excellent and will very often demand this price.
• R&D Defense: The first subroutine when deployed over R&D can actually be just as good as an "End the Run" if not sometimes conditionally better in the early game (prior to RnD multi-access capabilities coming online for the Runner). This is largely deck composition dependent, as Yagura works best in a Jinteki deck with thorny assets that trigger from RnD (Shock!, Snare!, sometimes Fetal AI depending on the score state). When the first subroutine fires, the corporation gains a chance to bury a trashable Asset or stealable Agenda and effectively "Re-Roll" the top card of their deck, hopefully coming up with something the runner cannot effectively deal with or that will punish their hubris. Additionally, a low-level mind game ensues every time that the corporation chooses to leave the card on top of R&D. This can even occasionally make seasoned Runners flinch and back off, allowing you to keep a card that you want to score or install despite them having the capability to trash/steal it (this technique for true Jinteki masterminds only). Having at least 4 credits in the corporate bank and a rezzed Yagura that cannot be broken over R&D is a flashing Keep Out sign for most runners.
• Deck Filtering Utility: The first subroutine, when placed anywhere else BESIDES your R&D that the runner will want to go often, is a much subtler effect that may sometimes go unbroken by Runners who think that they aren't hurting themselves. The subroutine transforms itself from defensive to utility in this circumstance, allowing you to scry next turn's mandatory draw and roll up a new card if what you see won't directly help you at your current stage of the game. This is an insidious ability that smart runners will often pony up the credit to stop you from having when they run through Yagura, creating a win-win economic scenario for the Corporation.
• Painful: Cheap, recurring net damage like the second subroutine of Yagura is a terrible thorn in the side of a Runner, very often translating directly to click loss as they seek to replace lost cards. When combined with other forms of tick net damage (Trap assets, House of Knives counters, the ID ability of Black Tree Jinteki, other Yaguras stacked in multiples...) this will dissuade runners from accesses and slow their game considerably. Some less savvy runners will think that Yagura's lack of an ETR subroutine and the survivability of it's single point of net damage effect means that they should run through it over and over again in the early game if it's the only card defending a central server. This is a huge mistake as the attrition damage of Yagura will snipe valuable pieces of their game-plan out of their hands and force them into damage control turns, giving the corporation the cumulative effect of a Time Walk down the line.
• Irritating: Common methods of ICE destruction or mitigation such as Parasite, Emergency Shutdown, Femme Fatale, Knight, and most recently Spooned are heavily discouraged by how cheap and (relatively) inoffensive Yagura is. This ICE's subroutines and rez cost are at a perfect juncture where they cannot be safely ignored but are not major enough to prompt the runner to burn their power cards against it, and often are a huge swing in tempo when the runner IS forced to use such cards.

Some negative elements of Yagura exist however:

• Deck Composition: As alluded to in the R&D defense bullet point above, the first subroutine of Yagura really shines best in a Jinteki deck that includes many thorny and/or hard-to-trash assets. Fortunately the red faction has plenty of ways to make the going tougher for the runner even on the cards that they DO access. Jinteki: Personal Evolution can use Yagura to feed Fetal AIs to the runner for 3 net damage, and Industrial Genomics: Growing Solutions may benefit from their ID ability to harden R&D against accesses by making the Assets and Upgrades of their deck too economically punishing to trash on access. With the first subroutine of Yagura you want to be taking your chances by sending the topmost card to the bottom of R&D as little as possible, and having a deck that plays to that by usually showing you something you want the runner to see the first time can be very advantageous.
• Splashability: Yagura is an amazing piece of ICE design that offers a great deal of play in Jinteki, but a pricey 2 influence is actually the least of it's problems when considered as a splash out of faction. Almost all of Yagura's singular strengths depend on synergies within the faction, and the 2 influence cost for such a small piece of ICE makes it very uncomfortable fighting against Quandary and Pop-up Window which are much more general-duty small Code Gates.
• Yog.0: When Fear and Loathing arrived Yog.0 was still considered the pinnacle of Code Gate breakers (due to a lack of high-strength code gates with effective subroutines aside from common Femme-target Tollbooth), and yet Yagura saw a great deal of praise and play even then. Working as a deck's single Code Gate within natural Yog.0 range Yagura is fortunately so cheap that it is at least a temporary tempo success anytime the Runner is forced to fetch their Yog.0 in order to deal with Yagura's subroutines. Now that the Code Gate card pool has matured, the meta has stabilized to a point where Yog.0 is quite rarely seen outside of Anarch, and Yagura is free to tax runners for 2 credits every time they want to see an unspoiled card from the top of the corporate deck. However, the free subroutine break of Yog.0 is a very tempting efficiency and so that icebreaker is unlikely to ever completely go away. For this reason Yagura pairs quite well with Lotus Field to create a High/Low Strength code gate power combo that is generally quite resistant to Yog.0, all in-faction.

As a note of comparison, consider Pup, a Jinteki Sentry of equal rez cost to Yagura. Pup is not at all a bad piece of ICE (anything that compares closely to Pop-up Window likely isn't). While it's possible to argue that Pup is more broadly useful in a deck that isn't built to synergize with the R&D defense effectiveness of Yagura, I would personally never consider including a single Pup in a Jinteki deck before I had already included all 3x Yagura I had access to.

@McKindling: Agreed on all points however by wording it would not seem as though this card's ability is triggered by Noise's ID ability. Noise: Hacker Extraordinaire states that when his condition is met "the Corp trashes the top card of R&D". Hostile Infrastructure I suspect was cleverly phrased by FFG so that the card would not completely shatter Noise. It certainly hurts Imp though which is a staple of Anarch.

Dirty Laundry is, no doubt about it, a great card. However I believe that it gets mindlessly thrown into a lot of Runner decks and used in ways that are counter-productive. I see people throw away a DL on the first turn by running into Archives despite not having any of the support pieces installed, and I shake my head. Prepaid VoicePAD can help you get a better return on investment for Dirty Laundry but it's still going to be a far worse Sure Gamble when you play it unless you're getting an ancillary benefit for your runs.

This is a card that belongs in a deck which wants successful runs for MORE then card access. Desperado, John Masanori, Grifter, Datasucker, HQ Interface/R&D Interface, these are the cards that should be your combo pieces to make Dirty Laundry an actually worthwhile inclusion in your deck. For those Anarchs out there who like to use ICE destruction and economy denial tools to break open a hole in the corporations' armor, then attack with cards like Medium, Nerve Agent, or Hemorrhage.... Dirty Laundry is for you!

But, if you are habitually using Dirty Laundry to get the net result of an Easy Mark, then you should really rethink whether it belongs in your deck.