Fearing assassination, former VP Cheney turned off heart monitor’s wireless function

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney was once so worried an assassin would kill him by overriding the defibrillator in his heart that he asked his doctor to disable the wire that acted as a wireless safeguard, Cheney has revealed in an upcoming memoir.

Cheney has a long history of cardiac problems, enduring his first of five heart attacks when he was just 37 years old, approximately a decade into his political career .... http://rt.com/usa

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(Flashback) Programmer Barnaby Jack dies a week before showing off heart-attack hack that can kill a man from 30 feet away

Well-known hacker Barnaby Jack has died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to show off techniques for attacking implanted heart devices that he said could kill a man from 30 feet away.

The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office said he died in the city on Thursday. It gave no details .... http://www.rawstory.com