Virtual Privateer

--Back in the days of yore pirates like Drake and Raleigh sailed with "Lettters of Marque"; i.e. documents signed by their sovereigns that gave them the "right" to go forth into the seas and raid hostile nations, provided they tithed a portion of their booty to the crown. In this era of electronic commerce (and landless hostile entities that are smaller than nation-states) this would still seem to be a valid business model, hitting hostile organizations where it really hurts: in the pocketbook. There's less scurvy this way, too. I propose setting up a company whose mission is to sail keyboards into hostile territory and grab everything that's not nailed down. Getting some form of written consent from a government entity might seem a problem, but curiously this has already been managed at least once in recent times. A band of characters who operate a reconstructed pirate vessel that's used to amuse tourists got such a document. It might seem to be for show, but it's a "legal" precedent. IIRC the vessel is sailing the waters on the East Coast. --Assuming the company could muster governmental consent it's a money machine and an alternative to conventional warfare which has, so far, come up empty...