Heroine, cocaine _and_ a cocktail of other drugs?<p>And the guy is a top notch hacker about to embarrass some pretty powerful conglomerates?<p>Sorry but I don't care how many bottles of champagne were in the room trash bin. This has MURDER written all over.<p>For the curious, here is an interesting story which might, or might not, be relevant:<p><a href="http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/suspicious_deaths_scientists_1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/suspicious_deaths_scie...</a>
<i>His physical symptoms indicated an accidental overdose of heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs. The report said Mr Jack's girlfriend had found him lying in bed unresponsive, with "multiple bottles of beer and champagne in the garbage can".<p>Mr Jack's death occurred shortly before he was due to demonstrate how heart implants could be hacked at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.</i><p>This is an awful tragedy, but it seems hard to imagine that there was any foul play involved. They would've needed to subdue him and then make him ingest cocaine. Therefore they'd need to subdue him physically or chemically. Struggling for your life tends to show up on an autopsy, as does being subdued with chemicals.<p>It's not impossible, but the absence of evidence should lead us to accept the facts at face value.<p>RIP Barnaby Jack.
Submitted once already (but not originally from the canonical URL of that news source), with lots of comments:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7009350" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7009350</a><p>And this same story was submitted two other times in the last day or so. What's with the duplicate detector these days?
Having your (accidental, maybe stupid, very unfortunate) death picked apart like this has been, in front of lots of people who knew you, must be really bad. (well, I mean, you're dead, but knowing that this kind of thing might happen to you sucks while you're alive)
Don't know if he travels a lot, but that's generally when people get overdoses. So much tolerance is psychological - a person readies their drugs with the same ritual in the same room - that their body doesn't have the same tolerance when it's taken another way. I think foul play
Afterall the "drug abuse" execution style is really used from time to time and not only a Hollywood invention. Curious to see what he was working on lately. I guess we'll never know. Being a hacker these days is a dangerous job.
RIP Jack!
Anyways, I Posted the news some 20 hours ago.
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007589" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007589</a>
Hacker News works in mysterious ways. Or is it 'right place, right time' bull$h!t !