Country dossier
Worldwide badge coverage for Norway, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
Seeded artifacts
Norwegian Security BSides SolaSec duck-shaped CTF badge
A source-backed Norwegian Security BSides electronic badge record: Noroff's post-event report documents a custom SolaSec electronic duck badge with seven LED challenge indicators, the official recordings page preserves Caleb Davis's Sykt Badge talk, and Cryptax's CTF write-up documents RP2040/MicroPython behavior, USB serial access, Wi-Fi AP setup, and on-badge web challenges.
SolaSec hackable electronic Kristiansand shield badge
BSides Kristiansand 2026 issued a custom hackable electronic badge shaped as the Kristiansand city shield. The official BSides Kristiansand article identifies SolaSec as its creator, and a published post-event account says every attendee received a hardware badge designed specifically for this event by Caleb Davis. The official ticket listing marks the June 5 Noroff conference as ended.
Events
The June 6, 2025 first BSides Kristiansand conference at Noroff's Kristiansand campus, whose source trail documents a custom SolaSec electronic duck badge and badge CTF.
The June 5, 2026 Norwegian Security BSides edition at Noroff whose official and post-event sources document a SolaSec-created, Caleb Davis-designed, hackable electronic badge shaped as the Kristiansand city shield.
Lifecycle
The post-event account says attendees were encouraged to explore, modify, and hack the badge, interact with embedded challenges, and discover hidden functionality without publishing challenge implementation details.
Noroff reports that the duck-shaped electronic badge used seven LED lights, each representing a unique challenge, and quotes SolaSec saying there were seven different ways to hack it.
The published post-event Shield Badge account says every attendee received one event-specific piece of hardware.
The official BSides Kristiansand article describes a custom, hackable electronic badge created by SolaSec in the shape of the Kristiansand city shield.
Cryptax's write-up records USB enumeration as a MicroPython board, a Raspberry Pi Pico W / RP2040 MicroPython banner, and a MicroPython REPL used to inspect files.
The badge created a DUCK-prefixed Wi-Fi access point, exposed an embedded web server at 192.168.4.1, and hosted CTF pages for flag capture.
The official recordings page preserves Caleb Davis's BSides Kristiansand 2025 talk about making the Sykt Badge.
The post-event account describes programming, flashing, testing, cross-continent transport, and on-time delivery after tight deadlines and logistical challenges.
Operational history
The record keeps this as a CTF-solving and archive detail rather than treating it as a badge defect or official intended workflow.
The entry preserves a real delivery constraint without overstating it as a failed distribution or hardware-quality incident.
The catalogue records observed hardware and software behavior while avoiding unrecovered component, board-source, and manufacturing claims.
The Norwegian record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying LinkedIn, ticketing, event-site, or generated imagery.
The Norway record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-site media, school-news photos, attendee screenshots, or generated badge art.
The catalogue records the verified artifact and its supported narrative without treating an event description or post-event story as a complete technical release.