John Markoff writes in Monday's New York Times about a rash of computer security breaches using IP spoofing to penetrate routers and firewalls. That's all the technical info I coudld glean from the story; CERT is supposed to "make an announcement" later today and tell us what brands of routers can and cannot be modified to defend against this type of attack. Towards the end of the article Markoff puts in a nice plug for crypto: Most computer security experts say that real security on the Internet awaits the widespread adoption of encryption technology for scrambling data and authenticating messages. ``The right answer is encryption because when you encrypt your business data you don't care how many people get a copy,'' said Eric Schmidt, the chief technical officer of Sun Microsystems. ``My prediction is that this will be the only real solution to these problems.'' --bal