Comment by jofla_net

I know the discussion has drifted into the larger realm of ethics and civic responsibility. But with respect to the original title, I always thought that it would be trivial to create a software 'tumbler' the logic of which was based on primitive examples, such as this. Edit: each user could have thier own initial state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_step_generator granted you'd need to ramp up the bits to make them less crackable. Then all you'd need is some translation to 2-d QR scancode graphics and a silly sliding bar and voila! Ticketmaster hegemony.

But yes, its disgusting that i've needed a phone for events...