BSides Roanoke
Official publisher of the completed June 5, 2026 BSides Roanoke event at Virginia Western Community College.
SourceBSides Roanoke 2026 · United States · 2026
BSides Roanoke 2026 Participant Badge Challenge
Admission badge with a web-puzzle companion; electronics undocumented
BSides Roanoke 2026's organizer-operated General Admission listing explicitly included a badge. A separate ShenLabs website declares itself a work of fiction created for the BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge. Together they support an admission-badge and web-puzzle record, but do not identify a physical link, electronics, or an embedded challenge mechanism.
EventBSides Roanoke 2026
SeriesBSides Roanoke
LocationVirginia Western Community College, Roanoke, Virginia
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Roanoke InfoSec Exchange Inc
Named host of the General Admission w/Badge ticket listing that establishes the participant badge package.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It adds a completed 2026 United States Security BSides artifact without turning the word badge into a PCB claim. The record preserves the verified participant badge and declared web challenge while making the public physical and technical gaps visible.
Hardware
The organizer's General Admission listing only says that a badge was included with a T-shirt and lunch. No recovered source identifies the badge's material, artwork, dimensions, lanyard, QR/RFID/NFC behavior, circuit board, components, power source, or electronic behavior. This record therefore models a participant admission/identity artifact, not an electronic badge.
Software & Apps
ShenLabs is a publicly reachable fictional web experience whose footer explicitly says it was created for the BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge; its clearance and decryption framing establishes a web-puzzle companion. It does not document firmware, code on the attendee badge, a QR/URL/credential link from the physical badge, a source repository, a puzzle solution, or a license, so none is claimed here.
Lore
BSides Roanoke took place June 5, 2026 at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, and the official site later marked the event as a wrap. The public source trail demonstrates that General Admission included a badge and that a fictional ShenLabs experience was made for a badge challenge, but leaves the physical artifact and challenge integration deliberately unresolved.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
admission identity artifact
organizer-provided
General Admission badge package
The Roanoke InfoSec Exchange Inc ticket listing offers General Admission w/Badge and says the ticket includes a T-shirt, badge, and lunch.
Source
badge challenge companion
self-identified challenge source
ShenLabs clearance web puzzle
The ShenLabs footer states that the fictional site was created for the BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge, using clearance and decryption framing; it does not establish that the web experience ran on, or was physically encoded into, the attendee badge.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
artifact specification gap
note
Public sources establish that General Admission included a badge, but do not identify its material, artwork, dimensions, lanyard, QR/RFID/NFC behavior, electronic status, components, or production/distribution detail.
The record is modeled as a participant admission/identity artifact and does not infer a paper badge, electronic badge, or technical design.
- Confidence
- organizer ticketing source
- Status
- needs artifact-level documentation
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event source pass
- Source note
- Roanoke InfoSec Exchange Inc / Zeffy General Admission w/Badge listing and BSides Roanoke official site.
challenge integration gap
note
ShenLabs explicitly identifies itself as a BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge, but no reviewed source explains how the participant badge connected to the web puzzle, its clues, a QR/URL/credential mechanism, a solution, or any reward path.
The catalogue can document the declared challenge companion without claiming that it was firmware, a badge-hosted application, or a particular physical interaction.
- Confidence
- self-identified challenge source
- Status
- needs challenge walkthrough
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event source pass
- Source note
- ShenLabs footer and reviewed BSides Roanoke / organizer ticketing sources.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No BSides Roanoke 2026 badge image is published because the official event site, organizer-operated ticketing page, and ShenLabs challenge page do not pair a specific badge image with source URL, reusable license or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event media, ticket graphics, screenshots, social-media photos, placeholders, or generated approximations.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and reviewed BSides Roanoke, Zeffy, and ShenLabs sources.
Resources
BSides Roanoke 2026 official site
official event page · Official BSides Roanoke source for the completed June 5, 2026 event at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, Virginia, including its post-event wrap framing.
BSides Roanoke 2026 ticket listing
organizer-operated ticketing · Roanoke InfoSec Exchange Inc ticket listing for the General Admission w/Badge package, explicitly stating that the conference ticket included a T-shirt, badge, and lunch.
ShenLabs badge challenge
badge challenge page · Public web puzzle whose footer explicitly says it is a work of fiction created for the BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge; it establishes a web challenge but not an electronics or physical-badge implementation.
Sources
BSides Roanoke: BSides Roanoke 2026
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the June 5, 2026 completed BSides Roanoke event, Virginia Western Community College venue context, and post-event wrap framing.
Roanoke InfoSec Exchange Inc / Zeffy: BSides Roanoke 2026 ticket listing
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Organizer-operated primary ticketing source for the General Admission w/Badge package and its included T-shirt, badge, and lunch wording.
ShenLabs: ShenLabs
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary self-identification source for the web experience's statement that it is a work of fiction created for the BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge; it does not document physical-badge construction or firmware.