If the internet is the new high seas of commerce are cyber criminals sheltering within nation-states borders the 20th century brethren of their 18th century ancestors? There are some startling parallels between the emergence and development of Pirate culture, nation state rivalries of long ago and the modern cyber-crime or advanced persistent threat groups of today. Join Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO for Cyjax as he charts a historical and likely hysterically funny look at piracy on the high-seas and how nation states hunted those scallywags to extinction. Arr.