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Trump admin empowers private US firms to go after transnational cybercriminals (www.nextgov.com)
submitted 4 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50670224

Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/expanding-capabilities-to-combat-transnational-cyber-enabled-crime/

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Letters of marque and reprisal now. This one is sailing further and further back into dark ages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque

In practice, the differences between privateers and pirates were sometimes slight, even merely a matter of interpretation

[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I don't like this version.