NorthSec
Official publisher of the past-editions page used for the 2015 team hardware-badge record.
SourceNorthSec 2015 · Canada · 2015
NorthSec 2015 Team Hardware Badge
Team hardware badge for the Bonsecours CTF
NorthSec's official past-editions page documents the 2015 Bonsecours CTF as a 54-team competition where participants, grouped in teams of eight, each had a hardware badge tied to network, IPv6 workstation, RF-monitoring, smartcard, and related challenge paths.
EventNorthSec 2015
SeriesNorthSec
LocationBonsecours, Montreal
CountryCanada
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It is the earliest currently seeded NorthSec hardware-badge evidence, showing the lineage existed before the public nsec-badge repository tags that begin with 2016.
Hardware
The official source says CTF participants, packed in teams of eight, each had a hardware badge. It does not publish component choices, schematics, firmware, repository material, or a complete distribution model, so this record does not infer a microcontroller, display, radio, or all-attendee badge.
Software & Apps
No public firmware or challenge source was recovered in this pass. The software and challenge behavior is limited to the official wording around network challenges, simulated IPv6 workstations, RF monitoring, and smartcard context.
Lore
This is modeled as a source-backed CTF team hardware artifact, not as a proven general conference attendee badge. The 2016 official lineage note later says every conference and competition attendee received a hardware badge.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
CTF artifact
officially documented
Team hardware badge challenge anchor
NorthSec's official archive says 2015 CTF participants were grouped into teams of eight and each had a hardware badge tied to the competition environment.
Source
challenge surface
officially documented
Network, RF, and smartcard challenge context
The same official note connects the badge context to network challenges, simulated IPv6 workstations, an RF monitoring station, and a provided smartcard.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
distribution scope caveat
note
The source describes CTF participants grouped into teams of eight and does not say that every conference attendee received this badge.
The badge is classified as a CTF team hardware artifact rather than a confirmed all-attendee admission badge.
- Confidence
- official source wording
- Status
- documented
- Timeframe
- 2015 event
- Source note
- NorthSec past-editions page.
hardware detail caveat
note
The official past-editions page proves a hardware badge but does not publish component names, board files, firmware, schematics, or a repository for the 2015 artifact.
The catalogue records the badge's existence and challenge context without inventing electronics.
- Confidence
- official source with limited technical detail
- Status
- documented
- Timeframe
- 2015 event
- Source note
- NorthSec past-editions page.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No 2015 badge image is published locally because this pass did not verify a source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, processing notes, and documentary-photo or official-raster provenance for a specific image.
The record remains text-source complete while avoiding generated, placeholder, social-media, or uncleared imagery.
- Confidence
- policy decision
- Status
- open
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- NorthSec past-editions page and badge.gallery image policy.