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Re:Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes by grishka on Monday July 08, 2024 @08:51PM (#40911479)
Good luck getting enough signal to play a video stream in a large crowd.
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Re:Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes by yonatan8070 on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @12:25AM (#40912528)
You don't need to truly stream a video capture of the app, you can have a scanner on the server side decode the barcode in the web/virtualized Android app and then only stream a couple hundred bytes, having the client regenerate the barcode
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Re:Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes by SpaghettiCthulu on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:38AM (#40916662)
Sure, it's possible, but come on, it's not practical.
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Re:Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes by IncreasePosts on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:56PM (#40951659)
Well, it wasn't practical before this blog post.
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