Russian Letters of Marque for cyber pirates. Patrick Tucker, @DefTechPat @DefenseOne, Defense One technology editor, & author, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move. HFN

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Russian Letters of Marque for cyber pirates.   Patrick Tucker, @DefTechPat @DefenseOne, Defense One technology editor, & author, The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move.  HFN

A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer.
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