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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

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". 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. 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. It's not impossible, but the absence of evidence should lead us to accept the facts at face value. RIP Barnaby Jack.

chongli 13y ago
Why couldn't he have been surreptitiously poisoned? Put even a small dose of heroin in his drink and he's not going to be putting up much resistance.
- Theodores 13y ago
  Hanlon's Razor applies: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The combination of drugs is not new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(drug) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(drug)
  - rhblake 13y ago
    Or more (?) famously, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_%28drug%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_%28drug%29
  - chongli 13y ago
    I like this one as a counter: “The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.” -- Bertrand Russell
  - aoeuaue 13y ago
    What are you talking about? Cheese is not a drug. As a heroin user, I can tell you that the APAP is only mixed in as to make black tar heroin snortable, as black tar is the only kind of heroin commonly found outside of the east coast. Moreover, APAP is not mentioned in the article at all.
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MisterWebz 13y ago
Not saying that there was foul play involved, but don't you think that if a "professional" was hired to kill him, he'd be more than aware of the various things left in the crime scene and on the body that could point to signs of foul play? Also, this reminds me of an episode of House of Cards.
- codex 13y ago
  According to the coroner's report [1], both his girlfriend and his friend told the police he had a history if opiate and cocaine use. [1] http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy_report_san_francisco_medical_examiner.pdf http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy...
jnardiello 13y ago
<movie> Cocaine can be injected. As well as any other substance. Drive him unconscious somehow (someone could push him drunk enough and sneak into his room. Then using some anesthetic totally unconscious), inject a lethal dose of drugs, cocaine and heroin. Now get out of the room somehow, either from the door or jumping out of the window. </movie> Ignoring the jumping out of the window part, seems quite plausible. Never trust girls that you meet at the pub, especially if they look interested in you and you are a computer guy.
- lgieron 13y ago
  > Never trust girls that you meet at the pub, especially if they look interested in you and you are a computer guy. A recipe for an amazing life.
  - undoware 13y ago
    You're misreading it, it's actually a clever bit of self-deprecation that I'm going to steal the next time people are looking at me enviously.
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- at-fates-hands 13y ago
  Very similar to how people feel Curt Cobain was "murdered". Conspiracy people say the amount of heroin in his system would have rendered him unable to pull the trigger on the shotgun. Also, your movie scenario has actually happened before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mabhouh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mab...
- raverbashing 13y ago
  "Cocaine can be injected. As well as any other substance" Yes, because coroners can't check for shot marks Oh wait they can and do check for any possible injection marks and their type
vfclists 13y ago
It's not impossible, but the absence of evidence should lead us to accept the facts at face value What facts? Such as the girlfriend stating that he took drugs. Would you by any chance know the girlfriend's name and how long they had been together? What kind of genuine girlfriend is so ready to confirm that her dead boyfriend took drugs, and apparently failed to discourage him from his alleged habit? Doesn't his good name matter to her? Where do people such as yourself come from anyway? Count me out of 'us'

chongli 13y ago

Why couldn't he have been surreptitiously poisoned? Put even a small dose of heroin in his drink and he's not going to be putting up much resistance.

Theodores 13y ago
Hanlon's Razor applies: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The combination of drugs is not new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(drug) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(drug)
- rhblake 13y ago
  Or more (?) famously, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_%28drug%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_%28drug%29
- chongli 13y ago
  I like this one as a counter: “The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.” -- Bertrand Russell
- aoeuaue 13y ago
  What are you talking about? Cheese is not a drug. As a heroin user, I can tell you that the APAP is only mixed in as to make black tar heroin snortable, as black tar is the only kind of heroin commonly found outside of the east coast. Moreover, APAP is not mentioned in the article at all.
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MisterWebz 13y ago

Not saying that there was foul play involved, but don't you think that if a "professional" was hired to kill him, he'd be more than aware of the various things left in the crime scene and on the body that could point to signs of foul play? Also, this reminds me of an episode of House of Cards.

codex 13y ago
According to the coroner's report [1], both his girlfriend and his friend told the police he had a history if opiate and cocaine use. [1] http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy_report_san_francisco_medical_examiner.pdf http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy...

jnardiello 13y ago

<movie> Cocaine can be injected. As well as any other substance. Drive him unconscious somehow (someone could push him drunk enough and sneak into his room. Then using some anesthetic totally unconscious), inject a lethal dose of drugs, cocaine and heroin. Now get out of the room somehow, either from the door or jumping out of the window. </movie> Ignoring the jumping out of the window part, seems quite plausible. Never trust girls that you meet at the pub, especially if they look interested in you and you are a computer guy.

lgieron 13y ago
> Never trust girls that you meet at the pub, especially if they look interested in you and you are a computer guy. A recipe for an amazing life.
- undoware 13y ago
  You're misreading it, it's actually a clever bit of self-deprecation that I'm going to steal the next time people are looking at me enviously.
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at-fates-hands 13y ago
Very similar to how people feel Curt Cobain was "murdered". Conspiracy people say the amount of heroin in his system would have rendered him unable to pull the trigger on the shotgun. Also, your movie scenario has actually happened before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mabhouh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mab...
raverbashing 13y ago
"Cocaine can be injected. As well as any other substance" Yes, because coroners can't check for shot marks Oh wait they can and do check for any possible injection marks and their type

vfclists 13y ago

It's not impossible, but the absence of evidence should lead us to accept the facts at face value What facts? Such as the girlfriend stating that he took drugs. Would you by any chance know the girlfriend's name and how long they had been together? What kind of genuine girlfriend is so ready to confirm that her dead boyfriend took drugs, and apparently failed to discourage him from his alleged habit? Doesn't his good name matter to her? Where do people such as yourself come from anyway? Count me out of 'us'