Recently, in response to the launch of paid "acceleration packages" and "inviting friends to help speed up" ticket grabbing services for third-party software, the staff of Railway 12306 responded that the effect of ticket grabbing with and without money is the same. 12306 has never cooperated with any third party, nor has it provided services such as additional fees or friend help grabbing. As the year comes to an end, my thoughts gradually intensify. During peak travel periods such as the Spring Festival travel rush, the battle for tickets is as intense as a war without gunpowder. In this situation, the "ticket grabbing artifact" became popular, using tempting slogans such as "lightning speed ticket grabbing" and "priority ticket purchasing" to attract anxious and restless travelers. However, these 'artifacts' cannot' fulfill one's wishes'. Careful analysis reveals that some platforms claim to significantly improve the success rate of ticket grabbing, but their principle is simply to use technological means to simulate manual continuous refreshing of remaining ticket information. Through high-frequency automatic refreshing, they can quickly capture the moment when remaining tickets appear, or optimize the algorithm for submitting ticket purchase requests to shorten the response time of requests. The "ticket grabbing artifact" is just playing a game of "cat and mouse" with 12306. 12306 has been strengthening restrictions and crackdowns on various ticket grabbing software, identifying and intercepting their abnormal requests through technical means. It must be pointed out that the allocation of ticket resources is a complex system engineering that is influenced by multiple factors. The "acceleration package" cannot "cover everything", and "inviting friends to help speed up" may not always have good results. Therefore, the high success rate claimed by ticket grabbing software is more of a marketing gimmick. Moreover, seemingly shortcuts to purchasing tickets often contain hidden traps. The "acceleration package" launched by some platforms does not accelerate, and the network disconnection status still displays the cumulative number of ticket grabbing times, effectively harvesting the "intelligence tax"; Some platforms use the gimmick of "improving the success rate of candidates" to induce consumers to purchase the platform's ticket grabbing channel and increase additional consumption; Some platforms use "free assistance packages" as bait to mislead users into sharing ticket grabbing tasks with friends, taking the opportunity to "steal" more traffic... Faced with various "ticket grabbing tools", users' personal information security is indeed "insecure". For example, some platforms default to selecting "Railway System Schedule Synchronization" when logging in, while others use the trick of "logging in to 12306 and redeeming train tickets for free" to obtain the 12306 account and password without the user's knowledge. More seriously, some platforms even induce users to "buy short and long trains" and "get on the train first with a ticket, and then make up for it later", which can easily cause overcrowding on trains. No matter how urgent the heart is to go home, don't be flustered. Faced with the problem of ticket grabbing, we may listen to more authoritative voices, such as how to correctly use the backup ticket purchasing function launched by 12306. Only with more calmness and less blind obedience, more caution and less recklessness, and abandoning the superstition of the "ticket grabbing artifact", can the journey home be more peaceful and smooth. (New Society)