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Famed hacker Barnaby Jack dies a week before hacking convention
(Reuters) - Barnaby Jack, a celebrated computer hacker who forced bank ATMs to spit out cash and sparked safety improvements in medical devices, died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to make a high-profile presentation at a hacking conference.

Jack had planned to demonstrate his techniques to hack into pacemakers and implanted defibrillators at the Black Hat hackers’ convention in Las Vegas next Thursday. He told Reuters last week that he could kill a man from 30 feet away by attacking an implanted heart device. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-hacker-death-idUSBRE96P0K120130726

Dick Cheney Feared Assassination Via Medical Device Hacking: 'I Was Aware of the Danger'
Former Vice President Dick Cheney came clean in an interview to CBS' "60 Minutes," revealing that when he had a device implanted to regulate his heartbeat in 2007, he had his doctors disable its wireless capabilities to prevent against a possible assassination attempt.

Cheney said that at the time, he was concerned about reports that hackers could break into the devices and kill their owners. http://abcnews.go.com/US/vice-president-dick-cheney-feared-pacemaker-hacking/story?id=20621434

It was announced autopsy results of Barnaby Jack would be released in a week. That comment appeared in respected media sources several months ago; and the cause of his death at such a young age are still not a matter of public record.

Who remembers when a drunken Dick Cheney shot one of his best friends in the face with bird-shot several years ago and suffered only media repercussions?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. I find this important enough to offer morning readers a chance to review the information

[rudolph the red]

2. That's very considerate of you

Thanks