People involved with hacking die mysteriously in Europe all the time,  like the British guy who made the first Java decompiler and got hit by a car or the German Student who committed &quot;suicide&quot; just after he thwarted the goals of major European electronic conglomerates by writing a paper about how you can unpot a smart card with nitric acid then look at the chip with an electron or scanning microscope,  attach probes and otherwise get any secrets the device has in it.