Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app

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CountVon@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yes because the security of barcodes and screenshotted tickets were such a huge problem before.

I think what you just described is actually a problem. Friends of my parents were visiting somewhere, bought tickets to a show from a reseller, met up with the seller (normal looking guy, no red flags, gave some plausible story why he was selling) and paid cash for printed out tickets with barcodes. Printouts looked legit, dates on the printouts were correct, etc. Went to the doors, tried to scan their tickets, got told that unfortunately they’d just been scammed. Anecdotal, but I doubt they were the only ones. TicketMaster still sucks as an organization but the extra security of rotating barcodes does serve a legitimate purpose, just like the rotating security codes generated by an authenticator app.

Airlines have recently been having problems with stowaways using screenshots of barcodes too. Such stowaways should get caught before departure by passenger headcounts, but clearly there are gaps or breakdowns in this procedure because some of these stowaways are getting caught at the destination. Others may have successfully flown for free. If it keeps happening I bet we’ll see the same rotating barcode value technology come to mobile boarding passes, if it hasn’t already.

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