DEF CON 34 · United States · 2026
Pre-event FloridaMan Party access-and-challenge artifact
FloridaMan Party's official 2026 storefront offers a FloridaMan 2026 Badge for $90, currently marks it out of stock, and tells prospective attendees that it is no longer shipping and to come to DEF CON. The same official storefront calls FloridaMan 2026 the biggest Florida-themed party at DEF CON, says entry is badge-only for venue access, and says each badge unlocks a live hacking challenge with stages and a scoreboard. The official party page schedules the event for Thursday, August 6, 2026, 9:00 PM–1:00 AM PT in Las Vegas, with the location provided upon purchase. This is a source-backed pre-event party-access and challenge artifact, not evidence of an electronic badge, DEF CON's official Human badge, conference registration, completed shipment or handoff, final venue admission rules, released challenge software, or a rights-cleared badge image.
People
The official storefront's footer identifies FloridaMan Party 2026. This narrow credit records the named public event brand without inferring company ownership, product design, party management, DEF CON affiliation, or individual authorship.
SourceThe official FloridaMan Party 2026 page footer includes @jonathansinger alongside the FloridaMan Party 2026 copyright notice. The reviewed page does not state a fuller badge, technical, event-organizer, or legal role, so none is inferred.
SourceIt records a current DEF CON-adjacent party artifact whose public sources expressly connect a sold event badge to venue access and a live hacking challenge, while retaining the crucial boundary between an independent party badge and a conference credential. The dossier makes the price/status, party timing, challenge framing, and image-policy rejection discoverable without inventing a PCB, firmware, physical design, admission guarantee, or a final event result.
The official store confirms a product called FloridaMan 2026 Badge, but does not describe its physical construction. No reviewed primary source identifies a PCB, microcontroller, battery, display, LEDs, radio, NFC, printed-card stock, lanyard, wristband, token, dimensions, materials, production quantity, or final design. The record is therefore modeled as a physical access-and-challenge artifact rather than upgraded into an electronic badge.
The storefront says each badge unlocks a live hacking challenge and that attendees can complete stages to climb a scoreboard. It does not identify badge firmware, embedded software, an app, a web endpoint, login/account model, challenge rules, score validation, source repository, privacy/data handling, accessibility behavior, service availability, or post-event archive. The challenge statement is retained as organizer-published event context, not as a claim that software runs on the badge itself.
The official party page calls the event FloridaMan Party 2026, lists Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and says the location is provided upon purchase. The storefront brands itself FloridaMan 2026 and describes a Florida-themed party at DEF CON; its footer credits FloridaMan Party 2026 and `@jonathansinger`. The source does not establish organizer affiliation with DEF CON, inclusion with DEF CON registration, a substitute for a DEF CON Human badge, or a completed party/access outcome.
Lifecycle
The storefront says each badge unlocks a live hacking challenge and frames progression as completing stages to climb a scoreboard. No reviewed source identifies challenge rules, format, tooling, endpoints, account model, scoring method, prize, operational schedule, data collection, accessibility, or a post-event archive; no software is inferred to run on the physical artifact.
SourceThe official storefront says entry is badge-only and that every attendee needs a valid event badge for venue access. It does not explain credential validation, name transfer, whether the listed product alone is sufficient, age/guest/sponsor conditions, venue capacity, door policy, or whether this party badge has any relationship to a DEF CON registration credential.
SourceThe official product page lists the FloridaMan 2026 Badge at $90 and currently marks it out of stock; its short product context says it is no longer shipping and directs attendees toward DEF CON. This is a listing-status snapshot, not proof of order volume, sale completion, shipped goods, pickup, refund terms, remaining inventory, or an eventual handoff.
SourceThe official party page schedules FloridaMan Party 2026 for Thursday, August 6, 2026 from 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM PT in Las Vegas, Nevada, and says the location is provided upon purchase. The page does not establish a final venue, pickup/entry process, actual attendance, or a completed party outcome.
SourceOperational history
The record keeps the organizer-published challenge framing discoverable without assuring a particular technical experience, safe data practice, fair scoring, accessibility, availability, or a final public result.
The record remains image-free rather than copying source-labelled generated product art, social media, storefront screenshots, party graphics, placeholders, or synthetic approximations.
The catalogue records a DEF CON-adjacent independent party badge rather than representing it as conference registration, an official convention credential, or a substitute for a valid DEF CON badge.
The record does not invent a PCB, microcontroller, firmware, lanyard, RFID/NFC, app, radio, or other device properties from the word badge alone.
A live/pre-event commerce snapshot is not presented as proof that badges were delivered, an access promise was honored, or the party/challenge happened as announced.
The catalogue preserves the product evidence and explains the image gap without treating generated marketing art as a picture of the actual badge or as an allowed public image asset.