Posted on 07/26/2013 10:13:41 AM PDT by DFG
A computer hacker who gained cult status across the internet after revealing how to hack cash machines has been found a week before he was due to demonstrate how to kill someone by hacking their pacemaker.
The body of Barnaby Jack was found in San Francisco yesterday. The city's medical examiner's office would not give any further details.
Jack, a security expert, became one of the most famous hackers on the planet after a 2010 demonstration in which he forced ATMs to spit out cash, dubbed 'Jackpotting'.
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I heard that he was working with pacemaker manufacturers to help make their products more safer.
I’ll be curious to know if he was hacked...
It’s time for the hourly aluminum foil hat questions! Who did he know that wanted him dead?
Karma? NSA?
He was a security expert pointing out flaws to help make them safer. I’m glad you two are fine with assassinations. (If it turns out to be murder)
Pwn3d.
Andrew Breitbart had a heart attack months before his death. As far as I know, a pacemaker was not installed at that time. I’d ask Andrew, but he’s dead. I’d ask his coroner, but he’s dead too.
Maybe the death was staged and he works for the government now.
This guy had talent.
I'm not sure that I would call it "talent", but I'll bet the NSA guys would have liked to recruit him.
damned shame
It reminds me of the "sudden" heart attack of FLIR expert Carlos Ghigliotti, who died shortly before testifying at a wrongful death lawsuit over the Waco fire during the Clinton administration.
-PJ
He worked for different companies to find program problems so the company could make them safer. He didn’t hack for the bad, he hacked for the good - to find out how someone could do it - then the company fixed the product.
I have a family relation who was hired by the navy to hack their computer systems, then the naval IT people would work to fix that problem. That’s what he did every day, write programs to hack their system.
If he showed people how to hack into cash machines, he had it coming.
yikes!
Somebody hacked his heartbeat mechanism.
Did you see this article yesterday?
Hackers hijack software in a CAR and remotely control the steering, brakes and horn using a laptop
EXCERPT
Using a laptop wirelessly connected to the car’s electronics, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were able to remotely control the brakes, the accelerate, change the speedometer, switch the headlights on and off, tighten the seatbelts and even blast the horn.
The project was funded by a grant from the U.S Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to highlight the security risks affecting modern-day cars.
AND John Roberts has done a special report on FoX about hackinginto controls of ships at sea taking over navigation without captain even knowing...saw this today
Saw both of those. With the dis functional FBI who ya gonna call ?
He showed banks how to get into their cash machines, and they fixed it. He doesn’t (didn’t) tell thieves how to commit crimes.
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