Andrew-Lee-Letter-To-Congress.pdf

An Open Letter from the CEO of ESET North America urges Congress to reject SOPA and PIPA, arguing that the bills' proposed DNS filtering would undermine the integrity of the Domain Name System and impede deployment of DNSSEC. The letter references a recent FBI takedown of the DNSChanger botnet that redirected users by altering DNS resolution (affecting roughly four million machines and generating about $14M for the criminals) to illustrate that state-mandated DNS changes are risky and counterproductive to broader Internet security efforts.