

Staffers from Albuquerque's Sandia National Laboratories came to the same conclusion in an analysis requested by US Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., who's opposed to the bill, in November. In a letter to Lofgren, Leonard Napolitano, Sandia's director of Computer Sciences and Information Systems in the lab's California office, writes that blocking DNS filtering could prompt "untrusted foreign servers" to fill in the gap, which could result in added security problems for online users.