The United States House of Representatives is considering the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA. Companies including Google, Zynga, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, and Mozilla, along with organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been sharply critical of the law. At CloudFlare, we share these concerns but see another significant risk: that SOPA’s proposed restrictions could be used to launch a new form of denial of service attack against which I’m not sure we will be able to defend.

Interesting read on how DNS and network provider CloudFlare has concerns over the US SOPA legislation.