Where to start! The biggest news of the week by far is that Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19, which is a security story in the sense that it's an everything story. As of Friday evening, Trump had been transported to Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment. While the situation has countless ripple effects, the deployment of the US Navy's so-called doomsday planes was not, contrary to at least one viral tweet, one of them. That happens all the time.
Believe it or not, the first presidential debate of the season was just a few days ago. Trump closed out the proceedings with an extended run of voting misinformation, managing an impressive 11 lies in a span of eight minutes. His performance also underscored the limits of focusing on how platforms moderate content, given that Trump will say pretty much whatever on a national stage. And speaking of, well, all of that, we also reviewed Where Law Ends, a new book by former Mueller probe prosecutor Andrew Weissmann about where the investigation went wrong.
In other government news, Russia's Fancy Bear hackers appear to have been behind a hack of a US federal agency that the government recently announced. It's not clear which agency, though, or what data they grabbed. And we took a look at a quirk in Georgia law that paying ransomware might federal
