Obscure Team Scans Systems To See Where Enemy May Hit. ‘The eclectic, low-profile researchers — among them, a college physics

professor, a nuclear engineer and a veteran of the federal government’s Y2K

preparations — are working in near-obscurity at the Commerce Department.

The team is trying to map the government’s electronic underbelly to identify

the systems and services whose failure or disruption by a hacker or foreign

enemy could cripple the U.S. military or economy or threaten public health,

and to determine how those systems are linked with, or “cascade” upon,

others.’ Wall Street Journal via lists.jammed.com