H4r0ld & V3rbaal's House Of Hacker Horrors
Eventbrite identifies this organizer as publisher of the Electric Fist listing; the profile does not supply a separate legal-entity or technical-authorship record.
SourceDEF CON 34 · United States · 2026
EFF "Electric Fist" BadgeLife (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event independently organized EFF-affiliated BadgeLife fundraiser
Eventbrite lists EFF "Electric Fist" BadgeLife (DEF CON 34) under H4r0ld & V3rbaal's House Of Hacker Horrors. The listing says its BadgeLife proceeds support Electronic Frontier Foundation's mission to defend digital privacy and online freedom; its FAQ says the project is officially affiliated with EFF but independently organized by H4r0ld and V3rbaal. It calls Electric Fist the pair's third EFF BadgeLife design, offers reruns of two prior designs at checkout, and announces online orders with Demo Labs pickup from 10 AM to noon on Friday and Saturday. This is a source-backed pre-event BadgeLife fundraising offering, not a delivery report, hardware specification, official DEF CON admission credential, or an EFF-designed or EFF-sold product claim.
EventDEF CON 34
SeriesDEF CON
LocationLVCC West Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Jon Selman (H4r0ld)
The Electric Fist listing's "Who are the badge makers?" section identifies H4r0ld as Jon Selman and describes the pair as independently organizing the EFF-affiliated project.
SourceZoey Selman (V3rbaal)
The Electric Fist listing's "Who are the badge makers?" section identifies V3rbaal as Zoey Selman and describes the pair as independently organizing the EFF-affiliated project.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It preserves a current, explicitly EFF-affiliated-but-independently-organized BadgeLife fundraiser without conflating an organizer's event listing with an official DEF CON badge, a technical release, or an EFF product catalogue. The dossier retains the documented benefit, organizer, prior-design, and pickup statements while keeping the physical form, implementation, allocation, donation accounting, and image-rights boundaries visible.
Hardware
The reviewed Eventbrite listing calls Electric Fist a BadgeLife design and schedules DEF CON pickup, but does not describe its physical form or material, PCB, electronics, controller, display, LEDs, power, connectors, dimensions, assembly, schematic, BOM, Gerbers, or safety characteristics. This record therefore does not infer an electronic badge or any engineering specification from the name, event context, or prior designs.
Software & Apps
No firmware, source repository, binary, flashing or update path, protocol, interaction behavior, software license, hardware license, or documentation license is published in the reviewed Eventbrite listing or organizer profile. The record does not infer software behavior or reuse rights from the BadgeLife label, fundraiser framing, or prior-design names.
Lore
The organizer describes Electric Fist as its third EFF BadgeLife design for DEF CON and says the two prior designs — NSA "All Your Data" Eagle and Privacy Badger — can be added at checkout as reruns. The listing says orders are currently DEF CON 34 pickup at Demo Labs from 10 AM to noon on Friday and Saturday, online orders only, with unclaimed orders donated to a broke hacker. It identifies H4r0ld and V3rbaal as the badge makers and says the project is EFF-affiliated but independently organized. These are organizer-published pre-event terms, not confirmation of manufacture, pickup, allocation, donation accounting, or recipient outcomes.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
badge lineage and checkout options
organizer-documented
Third EFF BadgeLife design and prior-design reruns
The organizer calls Electric Fist its third EFF BadgeLife design for DEF CON and says reruns of NSA "All Your Data" Eagle and Privacy Badger can be added at checkout. It does not document component changes, quantities, physical variants, or whether every listed option is ultimately fulfilled.
Source
fundraising and project relationship
organizer-documented
EFF benefit and independent-affiliation statement
The listing says BadgeLife proceeds support EFF's mission, and its FAQ says the project is officially affiliated with EFF but organized independently by H4r0ld and V3rbaal, with EFF aware of and supportive of the fundraising efforts. The source does not publish financial or donation-accounting terms.
Source
pre-event distribution
announced pre-event
Demo Labs pickup and unclaimed-order flow
The organizer says orders are currently DEF CON 34 pickup at Demo Labs from 10 AM to noon on Friday and Saturday, online orders only with no onsite sales. It says unclaimed orders will be donated to a broke hacker; neither source confirms completed pickup or recipient outcomes.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
independent BadgeLife classification and edition allocation gap
note
The listing connects the item to DEF CON 34 and names prior-design reruns, but it does not identify Electric Fist as the official DEF CON Human credential or publish quantities, production batches, exact edition/variant allocation, checkout-option fulfillment, or attendee-wide distribution terms.
The record remains a separately organized BadgeLife fundraiser linked to DEF CON 34 discovery, distinct from the official Human badge and from unverified allocation claims.
- Confidence
- primary organizer event listing
- Status
- documented pre-event
- Timeframe
- DEF CON 34
- Source note
- Eventbrite Electric Fist listing and official DEF CON 34 registration context.
independent EFF relationship and donation-accounting boundary
note
The FAQ says the project is EFF-affiliated but independently organized by H4r0ld and V3rbaal, and the listing says proceeds support EFF's mission. It does not publish the product's ownership, payment processing, donation percentage or timing, beneficiary receipt, accounting, or EFF product-management terms.
The catalogue records the organizer's exact public relationship and benefit statements without presenting independent organizers as EFF staff, claiming an EFF retail product, or inferring unannounced donation details.
- Confidence
- primary organizer event listing
- Status
- limited to published organizer statement
- Timeframe
- pre-event source pass
- Source note
- Eventbrite Electric Fist FAQ and event description.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No Electric Fist image is published because the Eventbrite listing and organizer profile do not pair a specific image with a reusable license or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The pre-event record remains source-backed and image-free instead of copying Eventbrite media, 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 Eventbrite listing and organizer profile.
physical form, hardware, and software documentation gap
note
The Eventbrite material calls Electric Fist a BadgeLife design but does not describe its physical form, material, electronics, power, PCB, connector, firmware, source, binary, flashing path, protocol, interaction design, schematic, BOM, Gerbers, or license terms.
The record does not turn a BadgeLife title, fundraiser context, or pickup plan into an electronic-badge claim, engineering specification, software feature list, or reusable technical archive.
- Confidence
- primary organizer sources
- Status
- needs technical documentation
- Timeframe
- pre-event source pass
- Source note
- Eventbrite Electric Fist listing and H4r0ld & V3rbaal organizer profile.
pre-event pickup and fulfillment boundary
note
The organizer announces online-order pickup at Demo Labs from 10 AM to noon on Friday and Saturday, and says unclaimed orders will be donated. DEF CON 34 has not yet occurred at this source pass, so the listing does not confirm manufacture, handoff, recipient count, missed-pickup donation, or final availability.
The catalogue preserves the announced distribution plan without converting it into a completed delivery or event report.
- Confidence
- primary organizer event listing
- Status
- awaiting DEF CON 34 outcome
- Timeframe
- pre-event as of 2026-08-03
- Source note
- EFF "Electric Fist" BadgeLife (DEF CON 34) Eventbrite listing.
Resources
EFF "Electric Fist" BadgeLife (DEF CON 34)
organizer event listing · Primary Eventbrite listing for the independently organized, EFF-affiliated Electric Fist BadgeLife offering. It establishes the organizer's benefit statement, independent-affiliation FAQ wording, third-design lineage, prior-design reruns, named badge makers, and announced Demo Labs pickup terms; it does not describe physical form, electronics, firmware, allocation, donation accounting, or reusable-image permission.
H4r0ld & V3rbaal's House Of Hacker Horrors
organizer profile · Eventbrite organizer profile identifying H4r0ld & V3rbaal's House Of Hacker Horrors as the publisher of the Electric Fist listing. Its profile media is not reused because no image-specific license or permission basis is published.
Sources
Eventbrite: H4r0ld & V3rbaal's House Of Hacker Horrors
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary organizer-profile source associating the Electric Fist listing with H4r0ld & V3rbaal's House Of Hacker Horrors. It does not identify a separate hardware or software archive, complete legal entity information, or reusable-image terms.
H4r0ld & V3rbaal's House Of Hacker Horrors / Eventbrite: EFF "Electric Fist" BadgeLife (DEF CON 34)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary organizer-published source for the Electric Fist BadgeLife title, DEF CON 34 pickup schedule, online-orders-only and unclaimed-order wording, EFF-benefit statement, FAQ statement that the project is EFF-affiliated but independently organized, third-design claim, prior-design reruns, and explicit H4r0ld/V3rbaal badge-maker naming. It does not establish physical form, electronics, firmware, production completion, delivery, allocation, donation accounting, or image-reuse rights.