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Famed ATM Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies Days Before Black Hat Conference
wiredmikey writes "A shocking and sad day today in the security industry. Well known hacker Barnaby Jack has passed away, sending a shock through the security community. Jack, a famed white hat hacker, was scheduled to present at the Black Hat conference on Tuesday, and present research on vulnerabilities in implantable medical devices. Shocked reactions hit the Twittersphere on Friday, as many in the industry conveyed their condolences, shock, and even disbelief, hoping new of the death was some sort of hoax. 'I just wake up and heard this, really sad, I can't believe this, no words,' Cesar Cerrudo, CTO, IOActive Labs, said in an email to SecurityWeek. Barnaby Jack is probably best known for his ATM hacking demonstrations, which he liked to refer as 'Jackpotting,' and performed at a few conferences, including a demonstration at Black Hat 2010 that got media attention around the world. The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office told Reuters that Jack had died in San Francisco on Thursday, but did not provide additional details."
. The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office told to Reuters that Jack had died in San Francisco on Thursday, but did not provide additional details."
Well, that is the official version of events, yes. -- NSA
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I'm shocked.
Hit the jackpot.
Can someone show me the way out? Tough to see with these sunglasses on.
Sometimes people just die.
Sometimes people get killed.
Sometimes people get killed by agencies funded by (yet unaccountable to) the United States Federal Government.
Not saying that's what happened. Just saying...
My bet: gang stalking at work. Protip: if you become a target, it is almost impossible to scape. Been a survivor myself Im still recovering. See www.stopOS.info or my site seguidos.wordPress.com (brazil/portuguese for now, sorry). Snowden is *nothing* compared with gang Stalking. It is a world fenomenon. Wikipedia say we are just very worried people. I assure you is not paranoia, but it is designed to be very hard to proof. Been a science guy myself I would not believe if it wasnt happened to me. But it can be explained with science. Thats what Im researching right now :).
Please mod this up. Please promote those sites, as many geeks are been monitored right know, as I was (slahsdot since 1998) will be hit and wont even know what happened.
Is this
A 50% chance of passing away prior to the start of the gathering and a 50% chance of passing away after the start of the gathering.
We are all honey pots for entropy
That sucks.
He was an interesting character. He helped me sneak a girl into a hacker party at the Peppermill one year during Defcon. No one that drank with him, even once, will ever forget him.
God had better keep an eye on him. If the pearly gates have any exploits, he'll find them.
See that "Preview" button?
Sometimes simply detaining a person is not enough. It attracts too much attention. Gotta take it to the next level. Good luck trying to prove anything.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
There has never been a time in Human history where the State did not kill those it considered too high a risk to society's welfare. This guy PROMISED to find the 'cracks' in public infrastructure that could be exploited to kill and maim. All Human engineering systems are imperfect in some way. When a person goes out his way to produce guides on how to sabotage the computers operating an elevator or pacemaker, he will end up dead, and there is no surprise to this outcome whatsoever.
Even the dumbest sheeple must comprehend that those that commit meta-crimes have placed a target on their foreheads. It doesn't matter what their excuse is- because everyone always has one excuse or another.
Now, I'm not arguing that the American agency that murdered him was morally justified- in this case maybe they were- but I am arguing that we are all responsible for the choices we make in life.
Take those people that disrupt forums, for instance. If they are intelligent, the trolls always play WITHIN the written rules, attempting to infuriate others so THEY step outside the guidelines and get banned. No rule set can target those who wish to be intelligently destructive (see Gödel for an explanation of this). Only the application of meta moderation can weed out the trolls by respecting the true purpose of the forum, and banning all those who clearly set their heart against the purpose of the forum.
Barnaby Jack has suffered meta moderation. His elimination can be compared to the young spy in the UK who ended up dead in his own flat inside his own sport's bag. At least in Jack's case, we know why he was put down. The Brit had offended just as badly, but how we may never know.
Unfortunately, to a vile and murderous regime like the one run by Obama, no distinction is made between 'good' and 'bad' kills. Obama just wants the power to kill whomsoever he currently ranks as a serious problem. I trust people here read the recent story about the journalist in Yemen that uncovered the truth about Obama's war crime in which he personally ordered a cruise missile armed with cluster bomb munition to wipe out a village filled with women and children. Barack 'Idi Amin' Obama howled and raged when the journalist proved the truth, and ordered the puppet regime of Yemen to imprison him for life. As a result the young man was falsely accused and falsely convicted. Appeal courts found in the journalist's favour, but Obama IN PERSON phoned the stooge that rules Yemen, and INSTRUCTED him to over-ride the courts, and keep him in prison.
Obama makes the worst gang-bangers that ever invaded a home, and raped, tortured and murdered the occupants, to seem like saints by comparison. Of course, Clinton II, or Bush III, or whomever the idiots that vote make president next, will be even worse. If you vote, whichever way you vote, your vote is a vote for THIS system. The ONLY way to vote against the system is to refuse to participate in the system. Not voting is a vote against the existing system. Legally, if too few people participate in active voting, there is a requirement to change the system.
Who edits these posts? Learn to re-read it.... spell check does not always help....
"hoping new of the death"
how about NEWS of the death....
You will be missed.
I wonder how much his research would have cost device makers monetarily... Does anyone know if the research he was going to present is or will still be made publicly available?
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
Based on misreported deaths -- e.g., John Denver's death by aircraft misreported a week before the actual event -- there is a small (let's be generous, call it 0.1% ) chance that he did not die as of the time of publication by Reuters.
Because of that, his chance of dying after the Black Hat conference is nowhere close to 50%. His chance of dying before the event was less than, but approaches, 100%.
We adjust statistics to reflect known facts and known probabilities. The reports of his death are a known fact. Whether he in fact died is not a known fact.
[For you researchers out there: this is just like the rules for combining data sets: if the number of data points in each set is not known, you use one set of rules. If the number of points is known, you use a set of rules similar to combination of areas and moments of inertia with the Parallel Axis theorem. Use the correct combination equations for the situation, please]
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
Try this instead: http://www.reuters.com/search?blob=barnaby+jack
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
But when I hear a man over 40 die suddenly its usually a heart attack, accident or suicide.
my co-worker's step-sister makes $83 hourly on the net. She has been discharged for 6 months however last month her pay check was $19589 simply acting on the net for a number of hours. Here's the location to scan additional
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I follow the school of thought that I could be "hit by a bus" at any time. All my documents and code are in remote repositories ("commit" is my "save"), and I've arranged several ways for folks who need/want access to get it. A distributed replication strategy is dead simple -- git pull in a chron job does the trick for most of my stuff.
That way, I know anything I put in: ~/with/great/power/comes/great/responsibility/ will at least get seen by some people I trust.
For the casual deadman there's several online solutions, even Google has theirs.
In a way, we live in a continuous afterlife where the passed pass the patterns of genes and minds towards eternity via cultural contributions. It's up to the living to carry on in the spirit of our deceased. It's a waste of life's works otherwise.
Now I'll have my moment of routing output to /dev/null/ in observance of Barnaby Jack, hoping none of his contributions will do the same.
That's just the thing here. Banking controls the world right now. We think it is government, but it's pretty much banking and money. As the global financial crisis comes closer to "the end of things" it's getting more and more serious. Now that the people hacking, cracking and exploiting vulnerabilities in money systems and services are becoming heroes to the people, the government can no longer be trusted to handle these people through official means.
We're going to see a lot more assassinations and mysterious deaths than we have been seeing lately.
Why does TFA talk about proximity of the conference to the date of his death? Surely there are other things more notable about the man's life than this.
I kind of find it odd his passing, but what could it even mean. That someone hacked him perhaps. Will we ever even know.
Does anyone know if (by any chance) he had a pacemaker?
I will admit that I have not read all 104 previous comments, but yes, there ARE technologies, as mentioned, using electromagnetic fields to affect brain function, and possibly more. I was invited and participated in DARPA think tank research and conferences, and between the conference briefings, and inter-expert discussions, I was blown away by the disclosures of what is possible and has been used. Without going into too many details (ahem...."free" energy!...gesundheit...and other novel technologies) it stimulated me to delve into years of subsequent research into the record. I have bought god knows how many books, checked web sources, technical papers, patents, chased down people who have received national security letters to prevent their further public disclosure of their work, etc. (all mainly for my own edification and understanding), and just like other things with alternative medicine I researched, experimented on, and personally and professionally verified in a professional capacity as a relevantly qualified and practicing design and R&D engineer, I was beyond amazed at what exists and is generally well below the public radar or outright disregarded as so called conspiracy theory when in fact, it is provable, working, documented tech in more than enough cases, and has been credibly suppressed (for public and commercial development) at worst. I never had so many classified findings, even when I was an operational member of a special forces unit in my (misguided) youth. Now as to death and whether it is murder, I will admit I cannot comment on the current hacker. Dr. Eugene Mallove, who (as head of publications and a PhD physicist at MIT) resigned from MIT and disclosed the essentially deliberate fraud of MIT's report presuming to disprove Pons-Fleischmann's cold fusion work, then became involved in the free energy movement, was mysteriously beaten to death in front of his home by parties unknown shortly before he was scheduled to testify in front of Congress with a working model of a free energy device. Above unity researchers are regularly harassed and threatened in a multiplicity of ways, including death threats from official parties. Stanley Meyer claimed many, and in a celebratory dinner, with a NATO officer, having signed a large sum R&D contract for use of his hydrogen fracturer, he took a drink of his cranberry juice, almost immediately said his last words..."I have just been poisoned" and went out to the parking lot, collapsed, died. Official autopsy claims brain aneurism, with dispute by his surviving brother and other witnesses, but so it goes. Certainly "free energy" research seems to be an unusually dangerous profession, just like that reporter whose car just seemed to have exploded in LA. What I learned professionally as a member of a special forces unit, what I have intensely researched over the years has led me to credibly believe you are foolish to think there are those who will not kill to keep secrets and who will not kill to preserve immense cash flows from our varied petroleum, coal, and nuclear industries. We are expected to believe people readily and repeatedly kill over bar arguments and do murder for hire for a few hundred dollars in our inner cities, and tens of thousands in insurance policies, but it is "conspiracy nuts" to believe interest groups will kill when millions and billions in profits, or state secrets, political power, and dirty dealings might be uncovered? Let us be real. Human history shows clearly that people have been killed for less (by governments) than the hacker was going to reveal. I am not saying his death IS suspicious. Certainly natural causes are often at play, and modern life habits are killers. Bear in mind the declassified CIA operations manual talks about assassinations and that it is best if they can be made to appear as accident or natural cause and arouses less opposition and suspicion. that alone should be sufficient warning worth considering given the unparalleled death of reporters in the Iraq campaign, in circumstances that to