This is SO reckless and improper. Never tell your enemy what you are doing or what you did. Force them to spend time chasing their own tail, and trying to figure out who did it? was it an accident? was it internal sabotage? Was it Israel? etc.
It’s an act of war, really. Not that I’m against it. Someone should go to jail for life for leaking this.
Not only is this reckless and improper, it’s really stupid. A cyber attack on another country by itself is only a nuisance. If you want to STOP a country from engaging in a policy, a cyber attack is only effective as a part of a much larger, coordinated attack on that country. In other words, you take down that country’s computer systems to blind them and remove their command & control. It is only effective for a short duration, but during that time, you actually, really, physically ATTACK them.
Did the suxtnet virus stop the Iranians from making nukes? Nope, it only slowed them down. It did not stop them. If a guy is beating you on the head with a two-by-four, your goal is to make him stop, not make him slow down.
Out idiot president does not realize any of this.