Cyber privateers and cyber bounty hunters are criminals that are not covered under international law as government agents. It also nullifies the myth cyber privateers/ bounty hunters can use government tools on civilian or otherwise protected classes of people and infrastructure at will. The inherent problem with cyber privateers is covered in the job description as well as their rather fanciful notion they are anything but criminals. Since 2001, there have been many attempts to codify US hiring of cyber privateers or bounty hunters into law. What are cyber bounty hunters and cyber privateers and what do they actually do?