What is the "name and shame" Obama cybercrime punishment strategy?

I was relieved this morning when I awoke to learn that the DOJ, that is the department where all the lawyers work, announced they had indicted 7 people for hacking into, and disrupting, our financial system between the years 2011 and 2013. They hacked into the Bank of America, NASDAQ and a system that controls the release of water from a large dam in the East. The hackers all work for an Iranian computer company so I was delighted that we were striking back forcefully on cyber criminals, particularly Iran. 

But that is not all. It turns out that the DOJ does not know where these people are. They were indicted in-absentia - they were not present and no one, least of all they DOJ, know where they are. They are likely back in Iran sipping espressos or maybe in Los Angeles sitting in front of a computer terminal hacking into this blog.  I under stand from the report that they have received awards from the Iranian government for their hacking actions. Will their shame never end? They will never see the light of a court room and never be punished for hacking into American institutions. But that is just the disheartening tip of the story. 

The DOJ announced that this "name and shame" policy, e.g. naming them in the newspapers and at a press conference will shame them into never doing this dastardly deed again. No siree-bob, as creative as I am, I cannot not make this stuff up. And we wonder why we lose faith in the administration to protect us from these kind of dangers or others for that matter. I can only hope that this new DOJ policy of "name and shame" is  not applied to other criminals. In this policy, we just publish a felon's name in the newspaper and we shame them into stopping all future robberies, killings and other malicious criminal activities.

The next time your child screws up, just say their name at the dinner table in front of all the family and watch their behavior improve. The DOJ believes it works so it must be effective. I almost forgot, the DOJ has been using this policy for several years against the Chinese and it definitely seems to be working, working, working, working.