So now you just need to bribe a few extra people to clear a plane for flight with a non-functional tracking device installed by maintainence?

Folks, we're talking about protection $250 million. If your simple suggestion won't resist $25 million of theft effort, it is worthless, as in it merely provides the illusion of protection.

Simple: is it possible to protect a $250 million dollar asset against, say 10% effort ($25 million) to steal it?
$25 million pays for a lot of training, bypass devices, and bribes.

If Slashdot let me edit posts I'd put that in my original: what is the break even point of added cost of incremental protection versus cost of theft? For a $250 million dollar asset, you need a system that at least resists $25 million of theft effort. Otherwise it is an illusion of protection.

So you've added two or three more people to be bribed to ignore a faulty tracking device - 1 or 2 in maintenance, and someone in the control tower?
A group bankrolling a $250 million theft attempt, this is small peanuts to work around.

More info about what happened will help, but at the moment it appears adding a few more beacons on the aircraft would be an illusion of protection. Now if they were super cheap, sure do it. But for a $250 million profit I think you can bypass a hell of a lot of gizmos between training and bribes, if you were willing to invest say 10% of that.

Like cryptography, it comes down to the value being protected versus the cost of protecting it. For a 777 worth a quarter of a billion dollars, a couple of transponders located wherever (outside, inside, in the tail fin, wing) would increment the cost of ripping the plane off just a little - mostly by including a few more people to bribe to ignore problems.

What I'm saying is that given how expensive the asset is, what is the real added value of a few enhancements (all the suggestions boil down to more locator beacons)? I'd argue bypassing a handful of locator beacons would cost less than say $25 million in more bribes and so on, making a 777 theft still profitable.

The point is somebody willing to ripoff a hundred million dollars is willing to invest several million doing it.
If your anti-theft device can't resist millions of dollars of effort, then it is pointless.

As for putting it outside the plane and whatever, the ring of thieves merely has to bribe an extra person or two in the maintenance hangar and air traffic control, to sign off on a non-functional device and then clear the plane for takeoff. Then the reasonably impervious device is bypassed altogether.

Again, the asset being protected is worth hundreds of millions. It comes down to how much are you willing to spend to steal it? Google tells me the "list price" of a 777 is around $250 million. Could 5-10 key people splitting 25 million do it?

If somebody is willing to ripoff a hundred million dollar plane, as the OP mentions, they are also willing to invest millions in stealing it.
Your car with an anti-theft device isn't the same reward to effort that motivated people interested in stealing a 777 would be willing to put in.

So the cost of bypassing the anti-theft device needs to be very large, or there isn't a point in having it.

How would you guarantee such a tracking device resists all possible sabotage efforts?

San Francisco is a nice place to live if you are making a good wage, but it's been stripped of personality. The thing that made San Francisco an interesting city to live in left, years ago. For instance, middle class persons can no longer afford to live or raise a family here. If you are a teacher, nurse, social worker, restaurant manager, small cafe owner, policeman, fireman, librarian, hotel worker, truck driver, car salesperson, etc,. etc. - you cannot buy in. Add to that the sense of snobby entitlement that has begun to sink in here. The place is filling up with upper-middle-class types who are nice enough, but there is a "sameness" about them that kills the heady diversity San Francisco was known for. Last, comparing San Francisco or the Bay Area to Florence is ridiculous. Seriously, stop with the fawning praise. The one thing that does separate San Francisco from a lot of other cities is its physical beauty. It's a stunning place. People want to live here because of that. If you look in the SOMA district where all the techies are living and working, it's become a stultifying, boring, architectually uninteresting place. Comparisons to Florence are self serving and reflect the degree of disconnectedness and lack of historical perspective shared by the tech industry. Everything is "now". San Francisco doesn't hold a candle to Florence, even today!

So, are we redefining autism as encompassing those other conditions etc, or did we mistake autism for all that other stuff?

Btw, most school systems in the U.S. spend 30-40% of their budget on 'special needs' students. Including boys that cannot settle down and learn.

That sounds heartless.

What causes are included in that statistic? Food poisoning ? Fires? Knife wounds? And how often do people cook at home vs be exposed to communicable diseases, since the population is largely immunized?

BTW, I am in favor of imunization. I'm not in favor of denying unimmunized children healthcare because their parents did not have them immunized.

I think the big problem is that 24 x 7 monitoring tends to be outsourced. It's not a good model. SIEM systems or good if anything to deserve human attention. But they either get so over tuned they don't really detect much of anything or they throw a lot of false positives.

Long as your in-house cert team is watching the SIEM that works they know the network. They recognize that radius server is likely to produce a lot of multiple authentication failed followed by authentication succeeded events against the domain controller because of the nature what it does. that's one to ignore but if it happened with some other server it might be a serious issue.

Now that monitoring gets outsourced to some CallCenter. They don't know the network. they escalate tickets for both events. Employees responsible those tickets are no longer 24 hour but they come in all day every day and all night. Most of them are crap how long until those guys stop jumping up from the dinner table to go check their PCs every time the phone vibrates?

Serious incidents get missed or not acted on until the next morning

The security team should have a license to kill from the executive team. We do, our instructions are if we believe we breach is in progress, "shut it down".

Mind you we have never done it. We came very very close to doing so once on a false positive. The operations team failed inform us of some activity they were going to be doing. Fortunately the guy answered his phone, but otherwise we would have pulled the plug and islanded the entire dmz ecommerce and the corporate home page and all.

After reviewing the after action report the executive team agreed and would've been right to do it given what we knew.

That is how it should work

If you approach a gas station in New Jersey and the guy standing next to the pump is 300 lbs overweight, be careful- it could be an ex-governor. Make sure to pull in slowly, give him some clearance, and fill up with 93. He may give you a strange piece of metal as a "gift". If it doesn't enter your skull at high velocity, take it (WTC steel, baby!). Then hand him a nice tip. Otherwise you might have to put the gas cap back on yourself a few blocks up the road- i.e. "self-service".

You can't be serious, making an insinuation like that on a good man.

Governor Christie is just concerned about the changes in traffic patterns that would be triggered by allowing electric cars to enter the state's vehicle markets unimpeded. Christie has a vision for the future of New Jersey and it is deeply important to him that municipal leaders across the state share his enthusiasm and goals. Enforcement along these lines would be impeded. Specifically, if the governor were to block off lanes to a bridge within a mayor's district, and everyone was driving electric cars, the smog wouldn't be as good for intimidating or disciplining the mayor. Clearly the traffic issues need more study.