You don't announce ahead of time you are doing something like this. You livestream it for maximum gotcha and shock value, make a tape of it and then have that go viral after you pulled off this wizardry.
This is like announcing you plan to break into Fort Knox on X date. Hello?!
(ie announce server x is going to get attacked, and stand back while logged into server y and monitor where/who the increased security presence and attention is coming from, and use that to target the next sigint / humint attack)
But a pretty solid plan for someone doing actual corporate espionage.
I hope you work for the good guys.
While if they don't respond, he won't succeed.
Probably far fetched but seems like a cool mind game
Clearly they wont make a source code evalution in few hours they have. This is not to say “im gonna rob wells fargo at corner of palm street and oak tomorrow at 11am”. This is to say “tomorrow at 11am i am going to rob one of 10,000 wells fargo units”.