Country dossier
Worldwide badge coverage for Costa Rica, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
Seeded artifacts
Hackable electronic CTF badge with a source-depth caveat
A conservative PWNEDCR 0x08 record: a named post-event account says the October 18-19, 2025 San José conference used a hackable electronic badge as part of its CTF, with hidden Easter eggs and challenges. It supports the reality of a physical electronic badge but publishes no component, firmware, maker, production, or reusable-image documentation.
Events
The October 18-19, 2025 PWNEDCR edition in San José, represented by a named post-event account that documents a hackable electronic badge as part of the conference CTF. No retained official 0x08 archive, technical release, maker credit, or rights-cleared badge image was recovered.
Lifecycle
The report places PWNEDCR 0x08 at Auditorio Nacional in the Centro Costarricense de Ciencia y Cultura in San José, Costa Rica on October 18-19, 2025, with three simultaneous tracks and more than 650 attendees. That event context does not identify badge quantity, eligibility, registration tier, price, pickup, delivery, admission role, or universal attendee distribution.
The report says the electronic badge was hackable, had already been hacked by at least three people during the CTF, and contained hidden Easter eggs and challenges integral to that competition. It does not describe the challenge design, interfaces, exploitation path, firmware, scoring, data handling, or any completed participant outcome.
Operational history
The badge is not presented as an admission credential, universal attendee entitlement, complete CTF platform, or verified distribution record.
The catalogue deliberately stops at source-described electronic and interactive behavior rather than inventing a technical architecture or user workflow.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying generic stock art, event graphics, screenshots, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The dossier treats that report as enough to establish a real 2025 electronic badge without representing it as an official 0x08 archive or independent technical corroboration.