HITCON CMT 2023 · Taiwan · 2023

HITCON CMT 2023 NFC Badge

Taiwanese badge mini-games and card-reader conference pass

HITCON CMT 2023's official events page says the badge was more than an identification badge: card readers and mini-games were placed at booths and around the venue, attendees used their badges to activate and interact with them, and the Activity Team booth provided NFC card readers for hands-on inspection.

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EventHITCON CMT 2023

SeriesHITCON

LocationAcademia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei

CountryTaiwan

People

Authors & Credits

badge mini-games and NFC reader booth

HITCON Activity Team

The official event page names the Activity Team booth as the place providing NFC card readers for badge inspection and ID-card operation learning.

Source

event and badge-game publisher

HITCON

Official publisher of the CMT 2023 event, location, and badge mini-games source pages.

Source

Why It Mattered

It documents a later HITCON badge path where the attendee credential became a physical interaction token for venue-wide mini-games and NFC learning, even though public sources do not expose a PCB schematic or firmware repository.

Hardware

The recovered official sources identify the attendee badge as a physical conference badge included in the welcome kit and used with card readers spread across booths and the venue. The Activity Team booth provided NFC card readers so attendees could inspect the contents inside the badge. This pass does not claim chip family, tag type, writable memory layout, or PCB electronics beyond that source-backed reader interaction.

Software & Apps

The badge mini-games were venue interactions activated by scanning the badge at card readers, with daily score prizes and threshold-based participation prizes. The adjacent Scavenger Hunt used a mobile-device URL from the pre-conference email, but this record keeps that separate from the badge's reader-triggered mini-game behavior.

Lore

HITCON framed the 2023 badge as an invitation to an epic badge brawl: seek card readers across booths and the venue, use the badge to trigger interactions, then visit the Activity Team booth to learn about common ID-card operation and discover what was inside the attendee badge.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge game source-backed

Daily score and threshold prize loop

The badge mini-games awarded special prizes to the top three daily scores and participation-prize eligibility when attendees crossed stated thresholds.

Compatibility: HITCON CMT 2023 NFC Badge

Source

event mechanic source-backed

Badge mini-games card-reader path

HITCON placed card readers and mini-games at booths and scattered around the venue, letting attendees activate interactions with their badge.

Compatibility: HITCON CMT 2023 NFC Badge

Source

workshop booth source-backed

Activity Team NFC reader station

The Activity Team booth provided NFC card readers so attendees could learn about common ID-card operation and inspect the contents inside their badge.

Compatibility: HITCON CMT 2023 NFC Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

hardware-detail caveat note

The recovered sources document badge mini-game behavior, card readers, NFC-reader inspection, and welcome-kit inclusion, but do not identify an exact chip, NFC tag type, memory layout, schematic, or firmware repository.

The dossier records the verified interaction model while avoiding unsupported component-level or security-primitive claims.

Confidence: source-backed but intentionally narrow
Status: needs public technical archive
Timeframe: 2023 badge archive pass
Source note: HITCON CMT 2023 event, location, and ticketing pages.

missing rights-cleared image note

No local HITCON CMT 2023 badge image has been added because the recovered official page images have not been paired with explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes for catalogue publication.

The Taiwanese HITCON 2023 entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event images or using generated placeholder art.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and HITCON CMT 2023 source pages.

Resources

HITCON CMT 2023 events event page · Official event page documenting badge mini-games, booth and venue card readers, NFC reader activity, scoring prizes, and adjacent Scavenger Hunt context. HITCON CMT 2023 location venue page · Official location page for Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei, plus the instruction to wear the badge throughout the event. HITCON CMT 2023 ticketing ticket page · Official ticketing page stating that the physical welcome kit included an attendee badge and limited-edition T-shirt for on-site pickup.

Sources

HITCON CMT 2023: Events Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for badge mini-games, card-reader placement, badge activation behavior, NFC-reader learning station, daily score prizes, and threshold prizes. HITCON CMT 2023: Location & Notice Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary venue and badge-use source for the Academia Sinica location and badge-wearing requirement. KKTIX / HITCON: HITCON CMT 2023 Ticketing Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary ticketing source for the on-site welcome kit containing the attendee badge.