Leftist Hackers Think Barnaby Jack Was Murdered

Famed hacker Barnaby Jack, who famously jackpotted ATM machines at hacker con Black Hat, overdosed on heroin and other cocktails of drugs days before he was supposed to present a talk on hacking pacemakers. Loony leftists think that Dick Cheney had him murdered.

From Vice.com here:

The celebrated hacker Barnaby Jack, who spectacularly demonstrated his ability to cause ATMs to spit out cash and pacemakers to crash, died from a drug overdose, San Francisco police revealed, months after his death at his home at the age of 36.

The cause of death was a mixed overdose of heroin, cocaine, diphenhydramine (Benadryl) and alprazolam (Xanax).

The news comes nearly six months after the New Zealander was found dead in his San Francisco home, on July 25th. Jack was scheduled to give a talk just days later at the Black Hat convention in Vegas, and it was the most widely anticipated of the hacker summit’s events. Titled “Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans,” his presentation was going to demonstrate that pacemakers could be hacked, a prospect that seriously worried Dick Cheney, among others.

Given the sensitivity of Jack’s work—and since it happened six weeks after the car wreck that killed investigative reporter Michael Hastings and sparked dozens of online conspiracy theories—speculation that Jack was the victim of foul play surrounded his untimely death.

His girlfriend told police she had never known Jack to go to the hospital, but that he had had a history of abuse of opiates, cocaine, and Xanax.

Jack was a deeply troubled addict. Why bother to murder a self-destructive person?

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