Advocates are calling on the US to shift from a defensive posture against cyberattacks to an offensive strategy leveraging "letters of marque and reprisal," a constitutional power granted to Congress. Giancarlo (MKTS) and ARedbord argue that the US should deploy every available tool, including this rarely invoked mechanism, to counter hackers more aggressively. Letters of marque and reprisal, found in Article I of the Constitution, historically authorized private citizens to seize foreign vessels during wartime. Proponents suggest adapting this framework to modern cyber warfare as a means of legally sanctioning offensive digital operations against state-linked hacking groups.