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Barnaby Jack was part of the soul of the software security community. He had so many friends. Please today remember that he was a real human being, and that he had friends who might read HN.

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Exactly. I mentioned on another submission, that got killed, that it would be a great tribute to the man if one of his friends/associates that new his work well could fill in and give his presentation at the conference. With so little time, I now think that might be unreasonable. Maybe use the time slot to hand out the slides, raise a toast and share some stories. The subject of his talk is incredibly important and should be distributed.

After minor digging, here is his blog about medical device hacking vs. the hollywood version:

http://blog.ioactive.com/2013/02/broken-hearts-how-plausible...

Interesting tidbit from the blog-The CEO's father has a pacemaker.

Blackhat will leave his slot open to commemorate.

https://www.blackhat.com/latestintel/07262013-remembering-ba...

Indeed. It's rather tasteless and crass to revert to snark and conspiracies on this thread.

Whether conspiracy theories are warranted or not, it would be an error of logic to imply snark and conspiracy are equivalent.

No one is suggesting that they are equivalent; they're equally undesirable. Snark is, however, the typical response seen here to the also undesirable conspiracy theory.

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