BSides Tampa 2018 · United States · 2018

BSides Tampa 2018 Badge

Tampa Bay BSides badge/lanyard artifact with electronic assembly context

BSides Tampa 2018 is represented here by a visible event badge/lanyard artifact in a CC BY-SA documentary photo, paired with an attendee report that says more than 750 attendees participated in Electronic Badge Assembly among the event activities.

BSides Tampa United States Florida Tampa Security BSides Electronic Badge Assembly Identity Badge Lanyard Tampa Bay North America

EventBSides Tampa 2018

SeriesBSides Tampa

LocationTampa, Florida

CountryUnited States

Image Provenance

Asset: optimized WebP crop from Wikimedia Commons documentary photo
Status: licensed original photo derivative
Source: HackerCon Badges.jpg
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Attribution: Sephiroth storm, Wikimedia Commons
Notes: Original 3252x2720 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo downloaded from File:HackerCon Badges.jpg and preserved in Public/images/source. The published WebP delivery asset is auto-oriented, metadata-stripped, cropped to the visible BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact, and otherwise kept as a real CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary-photo derivative. The crop preserves the visible BSides Tampa 2018 marking and avoids generated content, placeholders, or uncleared event-gallery imagery. The published badge.gallery delivery file is an optimized WebP generated from the rights-cleared local derivative/source with metadata stripped, WebP quality 82, and a maximum side cap of 1600 pixels when the source is larger; upstream source URL, license, and attribution remain unchanged.

People

Authors & Credits

BSides Tampa 2018 attendee-report authors

Charleston Fritts and Laura Malave

The source page metadata lists Charleston Fritts and Laura Malave as authors of the St. Petersburg College report used for event and electronic-badge-assembly context.

Source

BSides Tampa 2018 host

Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2

The St. Petersburg College attendee report identifies the Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2 as host of BSides Tampa 2018.

Source

CC BY-SA badge photographer

Sephiroth storm

Wikimedia Commons identifies Sephiroth storm as author of the HackerCon Badges.jpg documentary photo and licenses it under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Source

Why It Mattered

It fills another Florida Security BSides gap with a real, rights-cleared original photo rather than generated art, while keeping the technical claims narrow: public sources prove the event artifact and assembly activity, but not the schematic, firmware, BOM, or final electronics design.

Hardware

The reusable documentary photo shows a BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact. The St. Petersburg College attendee report documents Electronic Badge Assembly as an activity at the 2018 event, but this pass does not identify the assembled board, controller, display, battery, LED layout, or kit contents from public source text.

Software & Apps

No public firmware repository, badge app, bootloader, flashing workflow, challenge source, or schematic archive was recovered in this pass. The record therefore avoids programmable-badge behavior claims and treats the assembly trail as source-backed but hardware-source-limited.

Lore

The public attendee report frames BSides Tampa as a yearly information-security conference hosted by the Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2 and lists Electronic Badge Assembly beside Lock Pick Village, Car Hacking Village, CTF, Escape Room, and Resume Review for more than 750 attendees. The Commons source photo later preserved the physical 2018 badge/lanyard artifact on the same table as other hacker-conference badges.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

event badge activity source-backed

Electronic Badge Assembly activity

The attendee report lists Electronic Badge Assembly as one of the BSides Tampa 2018 activities for the more-than-750-attendee event.

Compatibility: BSides Tampa 2018 event badge ecosystem

Source

identity artifact licensed documentary photo

Documented badge/lanyard artifact

The Wikimedia Commons documentary photo shows a physical BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact, now published as a cropped WebP derivative with CC BY-SA provenance.

Compatibility: BSides Tampa 2018 Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

hardware-source caveat note

Public sources prove BSides Tampa 2018 event context, electronic badge assembly activity, and a visible badge/lanyard artifact, but this pass did not recover schematic, BOM, firmware, assembly instructions, controller part, battery details, or challenge-source material.

The record captures the source-backed artifact without inventing electronics or software behavior beyond the public evidence.

Confidence: source-backed but incomplete
Status: needs badge-team archive
Timeframe: current North America pass
Source note: St. Petersburg College attendee report, Wikimedia Commons photo metadata, and badge.gallery inclusion policy.

image provenance note

The published BSides Tampa 2018 image is a WebP crop from Sephiroth storm's CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo of hacker-conference badges.

The entry can show a real badge/lanyard artifact while avoiding generated art, unclear conference-gallery imagery, or social-media copies.

Confidence: Wikimedia Commons license metadata and visible badge text
Status: licensed original replacement applied
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: Wikimedia Commons File:HackerCon Badges.jpg and badge.gallery image policy.

Resources

BSides Tampa event site · Current official event site for the yearly Tampa Bay Security BSides conference lineage. HackerCon Badges.jpg image source · CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo by Sephiroth storm used as the source for the BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard crop. SPC Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics Club Attends BSides Tampa 2018 attendee report · St. Petersburg College attendee report for BSides Tampa 2018, Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2 hosting context, more-than-750-attendee note, and Electronic Badge Assembly activity evidence.

Sources

BSides Tampa: BSides Tampa Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Current official site anchoring the Tampa Bay Security BSides lineage; not used for image reuse. St. Petersburg College: SPC Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics Club Attends BSides Tampa 2018 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Attendee report source for the 2018 event, Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2 host context, more than 750 attendees, and Electronic Badge Assembly as an event activity. Wikimedia Commons: HackerCon Badges.jpg Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary photo source by Sephiroth storm showing a visible BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact; used for image provenance and artifact visibility, not component-level hardware specification.