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SourceBSides Athens 2024 · Greece · 2024
BSides Athens 2024 Electronic Circuit Badge
Greek Security BSides electronic circuit badge and soldering challenge
A source-backed Greek Security BSides electronic circuit badge record: the recovered official wrap-up says participants received an electronic circuit badge, soldered it until it lit up, could reuse it as a breadboard, and found that it contained secrets.
EventBSides Athens 2024
SeriesBSides Athens
LocationTWELVESEC, Athens
CountryGreece
People
Authors & Credits
Security BSides Athens
Official publisher for the 2024 Athens edition and the recovered wrap-up trail used for the electronic circuit badge record.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It adds Greece to the worldwide badge map with a real event artifact while keeping the evidence boundary sharp: public sources prove the electronic circuit badge and soldering activity, but not a component list, schematic, firmware repository, or rights-cleared badge image.
Hardware
The recovered official wrap-up text describes an electronic circuit badge distributed at BSides Athens 2024. It says participants soldered their badges to make them light up and that the board could double as a breadboard; no public schematic, BOM, microcontroller, PCB source, power design, or production count was recovered in this pass.
Software & Apps
The public trail only supports a hidden-secrets or challenge surface at a high level. No firmware image, source repository, flashing procedure, app protocol, badge-to-badge behavior, or challenge binary is claimed.
Lore
The official BSides Athens 2024 site anchors the event as the June 29, 2024 Athens Security BSides edition at TWELVESEC and includes a DIY soldering-session programme entry, while the recovered wrap-up frames the badge as a hands-on artifact that attendees built, lit, and explored for hidden secrets.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
badge hardware
source-backed
Electronic circuit badge
The recovered official wrap-up describes the attendee artifact as an electronic circuit badge distributed at BSides Athens 2024.
Source
challenge or puzzle surface
source-backed but underspecified
Hidden secrets
The recovered wrap-up states that the badge contained secrets, but no public challenge archive or firmware source was recovered in this pass.
Source
hands-on activity
source-backed
Soldering light-up path
The wrap-up says participants attended soldering sessions and soldered their badges to make them light up.
Source
post-event hardware reuse
source-backed
Breadboard reuse surface
The wrap-up describes the badge as capable of doubling as a breadboard after the event.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No source URL, reusable license or explicit permission basis, attribution string, and processing provenance were recovered for a publishable BSides Athens 2024 badge image.
The Greece record remains image-free rather than copying event-site, social-media, PDF, or gallery images without complete rights provenance.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy, BSides Athens 2024 event site, and recovered wrap-up trail.
recovered-wrap-up availability
note
The badge-specific claims are preserved in recovered official wrap-up text, but the direct BSides-hosted file endpoint may require archive recovery if the live fetch path changes.
Future maintainers should preserve a stable archive citation or replacement official mirror before adding richer details.
- Confidence
- public search/archive recovery
- Status
- monitor for stable mirror
- Timeframe
- 2024 recap recovery
- Source note
- Security BSides Athens 2024 Recap / Wrap-Up public search and BSides community file path.
technical-source gap
note
The public trail recovered so far does not expose the badge schematic, PCB files, BOM, firmware, chip list, challenge binary, flashing workflow, or production quantity.
The catalogue limits the record to the electronic circuit badge, soldering light-up path, breadboard reuse, and hidden-secrets claims explicitly supported by recovered sources.
- Confidence
- source-backed but incomplete
- Status
- needs artifact-level archive
- Timeframe
- post-event archive
- Source note
- BSides Athens 2024 official site and recovered wrap-up PDF.
Resources
BSides Athens 2024 official site
official event page · Official archived 2024 event site for the June 29, 2024 Security BSides Athens edition, Athens venue context, and soldering-session programme evidence.
BSides Athens 2024 wrap-up PDF
official wrap-up · Recovered official recap source for participant counts and badge-specific claims: an electronic circuit badge, soldering to light it up, breadboard reuse, and hidden secrets.
BSides Athens current site
official event lineage page · Official current BSides Athens site linking prior editions including 2024 and describing the Athens Security BSides chapter.
Security BSides Athens wiki
official chapter page · Security BSides community wiki entry for the Athens chapter, useful for chapter continuity and archived event material discovery.
Sources
Security BSides Athens: BSides Athens 2024 official site
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the 2024 edition, June 29, 2024 event framing, TWELVESEC venue signal, and DIY soldering session context.
Security BSides Athens: Security BSides Athens
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official current site for the Athens chapter, its community-driven information-security framing, and previous-events linkage including the 2024 edition.
Security BSides Athens: BSides Athens 2024 wrap-up PDF
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official recap source recovered through public search/archive context; it proves the electronic circuit badge, light-up soldering activity, breadboard reuse note, and hidden-secrets wording.