I expect most news from the US to have an element of insanity these days, but cyber letters of marque? Really? (https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/congressman_proposes_bringing_back_letters/)

For a legislative body that appears to have a median age of 60, the US Congress appears to be approaching cybersecurity problems as if they were a group of stoned teenagers.

Sometimes I am hesitant to speak out publicly, but considering that I disagree with Dave Aitel I feel confident my instincts here are correct.

We (the former colleagues of USA and Canada plus our friends NZ, AU, DE, UK and FR) are wholly unprepared to start an all-out proxy war without any oversight whatsoever.

We may THINK that we are already in that state of affairs, but I promise it can and would get a lot worse faster than you might imagine were there to be additional incentives outside of just criminal theft.

Turning our critical national infrastructures into a capture the flag game for anyone else in the world to play in is unnecessarily painting the world's largest target on our own backs.

Just say no to vigilantism and retribution.

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