Sandia Labs: SOPA will 'negatively impact' U.S. cybersecurity

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By Declan McCullagh
CNet News
Privacy Inc.
November 17, 2011

Add the Sandia National Laboratories, part of the U.S. Department of 
Energy, to the list of opponents of a controversial Hollywood-backed 
copyright bill.

Leonard Napolitano, Sandia's director of computer sciences and 
information systems, warned in a letter that the legislation is 
"unlikely to be effective" and will "negatively impact U.S. and global 
cybersecurity and Internet functionality."

Napolitano sent a letter in response to a request for a critique of the 
Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, from Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California 
Democrat who represents the heart of Silicon Valley. Lofgren is leading 
opposition in the House of Representatives to SOPA.

"If you take a look at this letter from Sandia Labs, I don't see you how 
you can possibly proceed" with SOPA, Lofgren told CNET.

While Sandia's mission started with nuclear weapons research, it has 
expanded to include infrastructure security and cybersecurity research. 
Sandia is owned by the government and operated by a contractor, Sandia 
Corporation, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, with offices in 
Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif.

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