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On reddit, someone was hypothesising that SeeTickets didn't turn on out of the box features for Queue-IT and/or akamai. They theorised that turning on these features would have inhibited some of the exploits. Would you agree with that?   I ask you because you seem very knowledable! Think we also interacted last year with respect to your analysis on how the host file exploit worked (NB to all: Incident did not use this exploit)

You leave my converted milk float out of this, young man. 😁

I don't disagree with that. But again, the motivation of prohibition isn't largely to end usage entirely (yes, the 90s "War on Drugs" nonsense was, didn't work that way, and so prohibition is seen as a failure) - it's to reduce it. And yes, this happens at the expense of pushing a smaller number of people into "problems".   The vast, vast majority of people living in the UK don't have a way to get illegal drugs, you ban them, you remove access for those people. You do it at the expense of making them more appealing for those who those who seek that sort of thing out as well.   I do still think that cigarettes are a different thing though. The appeal isn't the drug. If it was, nicotine patches would be massively popular. People still smoke cigs while vapes are available. There's a whole social element to it, you ban them in public you pretty much kill 95% of that. 

Nothing for certain but last year they made announcements 4 days in a row among which 2 were headliner announcements. 

Oh, that seems more reasonable.