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Trump admin empowers private US firms to go after transnational cybercriminals
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/50670224
www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/trump-admin-gives-private-us-firms-ability-go-after-transnational-cybercriminals/415398/
Letters of marque and reprisal now. This one is sailing further and further back into dark ages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
In practice, the differences between privateers and pirates were sometimes slight, even merely a matter of interpretation
Replying to @Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
God damn them all, I was told
We’d cruise the seas for crypto gold
Exploit no box, nor engineer
Now I’m an old black hat and in rent arrears
The last of Donald’s privateers