A VR hack is scarier than Lawnmower Man (The 3:59, Ep. 387)

Welcome to the 3:59, I'm Roger Cheng. I'm Alfred Ng. >. Virtual reality is supposed to take you to whole new digital worlds, but hackers get involved and they become a crazy bad trip. Alfred, you wrote about the potential dangers of this, what dhould we be worried about? What they did in their, you know, [UNKNOWN] that they wrote was essentially that they could move the walls like accordingly. So like you woul.dn't notice where they're moving cuz you're doing it so subtlety. And then like they can make a person walk into the wall. In one example, they didn't really do this but they said it was like entirely possible, that they could lead a person like Wouldn't they just acknowledge, for customers, hey this phone call is not going through. It is such a weird placebo effect. So, from what I understand a lot of it was to get out of being blamed for that call not connecting. If the call does not connect, you're like crappy T-Mobile. But if the call, if you hear a ringtone, you blame the other person for not picking up the phone. It's kind of a **** practice. But the call isn't connecting though. No, no. That's a thing. Customers don't know that. If they hear a ringtone, they assume someone else is on the other line, just not picking up. So, what, this is just kind of like a cover up on their end, where it's like, hey, we actually do have service here, even though they really didn't? Basically, yeah, if you're a customer, you're less likely to blame T-Mobile.