Since the rotating codes work like TOTP, then the same risks exist as OTPs as long as the scalper has possession of the token for a ticket. Am I understanding this right that the scalper buys a legit ticket to extract the token, then it can be used any number of times to get in a venue? I thought their system should be able to identify a token/ticket has already been scanned after it’s first used? That’s why there are no re-entry rules at most venues.
Either way, if all ticket resales are restricted to be sold at original purchase price, this issue will resolve itself. But nooo, because TM and AXS also get a piece of the pie in the resale market.
Am I understanding this right that the scalper buys a legit ticket to extract the token, then it can be used any number of times to get in a venue? I thought their system should be able to identify a token/ticket has already been scanned after it’s first used? That’s why there are no re-entry rules at most venues.
I don’t think the intent of the scalpers is to allow ticket reuse. Like you say, there are likely additional checks at the gate when a bar code is scanned. If a rotating barcode is cloned, only the first person to scan is going to get in. Everyone else who tries to use a clone of that now-used barcode is going to get denied entry because the door staff’s scanner is going to throw a “ticket already used” error of some kind. So while it’s technically possible to clone one of these rotating barcodes, just like it’s possible to have multiple authenticators producing the same OTPs, there’s no point in doing so.
What the scalpers are after is a platform that allows them to resell tickets without giving TicketMaster a cut. TicketMaster allows their rotating-bardcode tickets to be transferred to a wallet app like Google Wallet. Wallet apps like Google Wallet have features to allow you to transfer tickets to another user’s wallet, but the wallet specification also includes a flag for whether wallet-to-wallet transfers are allowed. TicketMaster sets that flag so you cannot give (or sell) your ticket to someone else using your own wallet, instead you have to go through something that TicketMaster controls. For transfers to friends and family, TicketMaster forces you to use their app. For reselling tickets, TicketMaster forces you to use their reselling site. TicketMaster’s primary motive is obvious: they want to take a cut of ticket resales, and this is how they do that.
The whole thing is a legal fight between two utterly shitty groups, TicketMaster and scalpers. Here’s hoping they somehow both lose.
The whole thing is a legal fight between two utterly shitty groups, TicketMaster and scalpers. Here’s hoping they somehow both lose.
That was my take. On the one hand, fuck TicketMaster. But on the other hand, fuck scalpers. I wish venues would only allow a max of like 20 tickets being sold to any one entity. That way Ticket Master dies and scalpers are only able to make a little bit of money.
The fee is no more extraordinary than the pay Musk asked for. Considering stockholders have now confirmed the $56 billion payment to Musk, I suppose although involuntarily they simultaneously chose to acknowledge the high fee for the lawyers, as they used a completely normal percentage fee.
The only thing that made it exceptional, was the exceptional amount granted illegally to Musk. Which was made legal later by stockholders accepting it.
Had they done it correctly in the first place, there wouldn’t have been a lawsuit against them, costing that percentage fee.
Could someone please design a drone capturing net+parachute tossing device so that we can capture a drone and investigate the controller so that we can prove that ruzzia targets babies?
A simple coordinate location leading the drone to its intended target? 🎯 Yes. A name for the target? No, it won’t say "children’s hospital 🏥 please. It won’t say "4th and Maine please. It gonna be either a connection to a server where the target was set, or an actual target coordinate set.
Also… inflation is always there. My parents made a laughable amount of money together compared to what I make. The only difference is time. Once time passes your income becomes smaller than the new generations. Thus making you eventually homeless after retirement.
I hope these words help others understand how inflation is another tool to make us work our ass off during our useful life and then make good riddance of us after we’re no longer useful.
This is why you save money while you’re working and plan for retirement inclusive of inflation. You retire with a fixed income that is built with annual inflation in mind. It’s not “designed” to keep anyone poor. That’s utter nonsense.
TBH it is hard to pick on without context considering we do have this "opinion" thrown around regularly esp early on when the entire ethnic cleansing campaign was hinged on this brain dead take.
Well it doesnt help that Microsoft got hacked, in January, by the same group that did the Solarwinds hack. It even affected state government. I wonder if someone doing… anything, could have prevented this.
I know the offical story is a weak password, but even the article questions that.
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