The White House will give cybersecurity firms permission to conduct “offensive cyber operations aimed at disrupting criminal organizations,” Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
Trump’s administration has spent months waffling on the idea, which is substantially similar to the centuries-old practice of issuing letters of marque. That’s a type of document from the Age of Sail which extended official protections to private vessels to attack pirates and enemy vessels, a legal (depending on who you ask) and regulated form of piracy known as privateering.
A fact sheet on the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) states the interagency…
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