Why It Mattered
It preserves a completed Indian conference's documented ticket credential without converting an advertised inclusion or a passed-event listing into an unsupported electronic-badge or delivered-attendee claim.
Hardware
The official ticket page calls the item an Event Badge. It does not document its physical form, material, lanyard, printed design, barcode, QR, RFID/NFC, electronic hardware, PCB, components, manufacturing, or allocation.
Software & Apps
No badge software, firmware, application, challenge, repository, protocol, or technical linkage to the separate 2026 CTF is claimed.
Lore
BSides Chennai's official pages describe a community-driven cybersecurity conference at Turyaa Hotel OMR, Chennai. The organizer's CTF page now says the separate 2026 CTF concluded, and the Security BSides global calendar lists the May 30 conference as passed. The current tickets page still shows an expired May sales window, so that copy is retained as evidence of the advertised event credential rather than a current availability or fulfilment record.
identity-artifact classification
note
The record is modeled as an identity artifact rather than an electronic badge or a more specific physical credential that public sources do not identify.
- Confidence
- official ticket inclusion wording
- Status
- credential name documented; object form unspecified
- Timeframe
- BSides Chennai 2026 ticket copy
- Source note
- BSides Chennai 2026 official ticket page.
missing rights-cleared image
note
The India record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and BSides Chennai 2026 official event, ticket, schedule, and CTF pages.
technical and CTF-linkage gap
note
No electronic, software, CTF, radio, power, data-use, or operational claim is inferred from the shared conference context.
- Confidence
- official event, schedule, ticket, and CTF-page review
- Status
- separate CTF documented; badge technology unreported
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- BSides Chennai 2026 official event, ticket, schedule, and CTF pages.
ticket-offer, source-currency, and fulfilment boundary
note
The catalogue treats the conference as completed while preserving the public ticket offer as evidence of an advertised credential, not a current sale, attendee-wide entitlement, or proof that a particular person received a badge.
- Confidence
- official ticket page, official CTF status, and Security BSides global calendar
- Status
- conference and CTF completed; delivery and allocation unrecovered
- Timeframe
- reviewed 2026-09-17
- Source note
- BSides Chennai 2026 official ticket, schedule, and CTF pages, plus the Security BSides global community calendar, reviewed 2026-09-17.