Recon Village at DEF CON 31 · United States · 2023

Recon Village DC31 The Spy Silhouette Badge

Classic spy badge with speaker variant

Recon Village's DEF CON 31 badge entry, The Spy Silhouette, returned to the fedora silhouette with die-cut shape, LED illumination, a speaker-badge variant, and custom Recon Village lanyard.

Recon Village DEF CON United States Las Vegas DEF CON 31 Electronic Badge Spy Silhouette LED Speaker Badge Lanyard North America

EventRecon Village at DEF CON 31

SeriesRecon Village

LocationLas Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 31

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

official badge archive publisher

Recon Village Team

The official Badge Life metadata names Recon Village Team as author and Recon Village as publisher for the DEF CON badge archive.

Source

Why It Mattered

It documents a role-variant and lanyard-aware village badge year while keeping the public record limited to the official archive rather than inferring unreleased internals.

Hardware

The official Badge Life archive documents die-cut silhouette shape, LED illumination, speaker badge variant, and custom Recon Village lanyard. It does not publish controller, schematic, firmware, bill of materials, manufacturing files, battery, or distribution quantity.

Software & Apps

No public firmware, speaker-badge protocol, challenge code, or badge application archive was recovered for this badge in this pass.

Lore

The official page names the theme as Classic Spy and describes the fedora silhouette as the iconic Recon Village visual.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge variant officially documented

Speaker badge and lanyard variant

The DEF CON 31 entry documents LED illumination, a speaker badge variant, and a custom Recon Village lanyard.

Compatibility: Recon Village DC31 The Spy Silhouette Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No Recon Village DC31 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.

The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and Recon Village Badge Life all-rights-reserved footer.

technical-source gap note

The official page proves die-cut silhouette shape, LED illumination, speaker-badge variant, and custom Recon Village lanyard, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, or production files were recovered.

The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.

Confidence: official archive with limited hardware depth
Status: needs deeper archive recovery
Timeframe: current Recon Village pass
Source note: Recon Village Badge Life page.

Resources

Recon Village Badge Life official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 31 The Spy Silhouette badge, LED illumination, speaker-badge variant, custom lanyard, and image-rights boundary.

Sources

Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 31 The Spy Silhouette badge, die-cut shape, LED illumination, speaker badge variant, and custom lanyard.