And while the intelligence agencies would insist on secrecy, that would defeat the point: for our response to deter attackers, it needs to be very public—as public as an American airstrike on a chemical-weapons plant in Syria, or an Israeli strike on a nuclear reactor. Every time we respond quietly—or not at all—to an attack because we are worried about revealing the quality of our detection systems or the capability of our weapons, we only encourage escalation and further cyber strikes from our adversaries.
