Comment by efitz

The app-based barcodes don’t seem to be solving a security problem for customers - they seem to be for the purpose of ensuring that traditional scalping doesn’t work, forcing ticket resale into a market that TicketMaster can profit from.

I would consider it unethical to publish details of an unpatched vulnerability that allowed ticket forgery, but I don’t think it’s unethical to bypass DRM-like controls for personal convenience rather than commercial purposes.

Of course opinions may differ on this.