The summary and article are misleading - the actual text of the bill is a regressive tax on local business.

They weren't hired by Facebook, they are hired by other companies and they use Facebook lookalike domains in their phishing tests for other companies.

People keep saying it is this Brooklyn fiber cut, but why would one cut in Brooklyn take out service in Washington DC?

This letter loses all credibility when in the first paragraph they refer to Marketplace as an NPR program. Marketplace is played on many NPR affiliated radio stations, but is actually produced and distributed by American Public Media (not to be confused with the TV program Marketplace from the Canadian Broadcasting Company). If the lawyers can't get simple things like that right, why would the reader be confident that they got complicated legal precedent right.

Has anyone seen this press release? I don't see a link to it in the original article and it isn't in the press section on Paragon's website. The last press release there is from 2018.

I am happy to believe that they couldn't find any evidence of unusual drone activity, but "finding nothing" isn't the same as being able to explain every report.

Right, but knowing the user is running a very outdated version, mobile version, etc is good too.

When non-technical users have problems with websites we maintain, they often can't tell us what browser they are using, but we can often find the user in our access logs and check the user agent to get some idea of how to reproduce the issue (or just give them instructions for how to update/install a new browser). Without UA strings, this helpdesk assistance won't work.

The NSA has some interesting capabilities, but I am pretty sure scanning all that traffic is a stretch. If it is encrypted (properly), even less chance.

Microsoft operates buildmypinnedsite.com, so what would be so hard about them just reclaiming it, especially now that this is in the news?

Thankfully, devices that require you to change the default code are becoming more common. Our brand new copy machines don't force you to change the admin password, but every time someone with admin rights logs in, the system reminds you that the default admin account still has the default password. In truth, even better are devices that don't have a default password at all, but make you set one the first time you connect them.

Because the US DoD is going to put all its data in Germany or Finland...

I couldn't copy/paste that link, but the story is definitely still there: For 8 days Windows bundled a password manager with a critical plugin flaw

The real reason Caller ID spoofing is allowed is to allow people with multiple phone lines to show their main call-back number, show the direct dial number of someone who called instead of the main number, or for companies offering legitimate dialing service (for example, school closed for inclement weather calls) to show the number of their client.

And at least one book where the only "happy ending" in the book was to flip through the pages until you found it.
The text on that page even said something like "You didn't make any choices, but somehow you got here".