Len Napolitano

The Sandia National Laboratories is part of the U.S. Department of Energy. Although it started in nuclear weapons research, the lab has expanded to include infrastructure security and cybersecurity research and thus has major cred when it weighs in on issues related to Internet functionality. So it was that Sandia's director of computer sciences and information system, Len Napolitano, offered anti-SOPA activists an important new ally when he predicted that the proposed legislation would "negatively impact U.S. and global cybersecurity and Internet functionality."