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Supporting Kocher's feynmanesque cracking of sec systems, the WSJ reports today on new ways science "seeks answers to high-tech puzzles by examining the reckless and random ways of nature." The cold, digital domain of silicon-based technology is drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the living, breathing realm of nature. Scientists are turning to a wide variety of natural models -- from the way salmon migrate to how the human body fights viruses to evolution -- for new approaches to problem-solving. "Our view of computer science is rationalistic, mechanistic. But nature winds up doing things in a way we'de never think of," one scientist says. FEY_kry