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It is time for another Tech Stuff classic and we actually have a part 2 so last week,

last Friday we had the worst hacking scenes from Hollywood Part 1 with Shannon Morse and

Shannon is back for this other classic episode, the worst hacking scenes from Hollywood,

Part 2. It originally published on September 14th, 2016. Enjoy.

Today we're going to talk more about some of the embarrassing examples out there in entertainment

as well as some of the really good ones and we're going to start off with a conversation about

a pair of movies that not only did a disservice to hackers but also virtual reality.

We joined the conversation already in progress.

Lawnmower Man and Lawnmower Man 2, inspired by the work of Stephen King.

So these movies are terrible, I could be a lot of fun to watch with a group of people who

just want to see like a really bad movie and make fun of it, you know, MST3K style.

I included a couple of clips and I showed them to Shannon. One of them was a demonstration that

hacking a system in this world isn't just graphical but immersive.

So you're wearing like a head mounted display and you're wearing gloves that allow you to

interact with the virtual world and so they're showing a character getting back to or access to

a system by slapping at hexagons inside this virtual space. So these hexagons are popping up

in front of them and he's slapping at them and eventually gets access granted. Mostly it's

getting access denied but eventually access granted pops up and it looks like the only thing that

he did differently was just that he hit it a little faster that time. So in other words,

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