Stewart Baker

It wasn’t just the knee-jerk free-speechers who joined the anti-SOPA movement. Stewart Baker, a former Homeland Security assistant secretary and NSA general counsel, warned Congress that the bill’s passage would "run directly counter" to what the government was doing on cybersecurity. “If the bills become law, the security system won’t be able to tell the difference between sites that have been blocked by law and those that have been sabotaged by hackers,” he said. “Indeed, it isn’t hard to imagine crooks redirecting users to sites that say, “You were redirected here because the site you asked for has violated copyright,” while at the same time planting malware on the user’s computer.”