Country dossier
Taiwan
Worldwide badge coverage for Taiwan, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
7 badge(s) · 7 event(s) · 1 series · 2017-2026
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HITCON · Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei · 2017 · 1 badge(s)
The August 25-26, 2017 HITCON CMT edition whose official pages documented the first HITCON Badge Challenges electronic badge, powered by a MediaTek chipset with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, joystick, infrared, and LED display features.
HITCON · Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center 5F · 2018 · 1 badge(s)
The July 27-28, 2018 HITCON CMT edition whose official pages documented HITCON Wallet, a limited blockchain electronic badge bundled with Royal VIP and Premium passes and built around secure-element cold-wallet, e-paper, Wi-Fi, and BLE features.
HITCON · Taipei · 2019 · 1 badge(s)
The HITCON CMT 2019 edition whose official event page documented a Taiwan-shaped electronic board badge, sponsor challenge LED unlocks, and an ARM TrustZone badge challenge.
HITCON · Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei · 2023 · 1 badge(s)
The HITCON CMT 2023 edition where the attendee badge acted as more than identification, activating booth and venue card-reader mini-games with NFC reader learning at the Activity Team booth.
HITCON · Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei · 2024 · 1 badge(s)
The HITCON CMT 2024 edition whose official activity page said every attendee ID was a PCB badge, with score accrual, games, docking between badges, BadUSB play, and on-site programmer support.
HITCON · Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei · 2025 · 1 badge(s)
The August 15-16, 2025 HITCON edition whose PCB Badge guide documents a hacker-pet badge, games, pedometer scoring, Red-vs-Blue tower capture, cross-board interaction, and BadUSB behavior.
HITCON · Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Academia Sinica, Nangang District, Taipei · 2026 · 1 badge(s)
The planned August 21-22, 2026 HITCON security conference at Academia Sinica. Its official event and ticket pages establish an attendee badge in published ticket-package conditions, while the official events page says every attendee badge embeds an NTAG215 NFC chip for phone-tap collectible-card exchanges. The reviewed pre-event sources do not identify the 2026 badge's physical construction, PCB, firmware, access-control role, data handling, or image-reuse rights.
badge game
The official PCB Badge guide documents a BadUSB activity path as part of the 2024 badge game surface.
badge game
The badge guide documents BadUSB behavior and script execution as part of the 2025 badge activity surface.
badge game
The badge mini-games awarded special prizes to the top three daily scores and participation-prize eligibility when attendees crossed stated thresholds.
badge game
The 2025 PCB Badge guide documents a Hacker Pet mode alongside score display and other badge activities.
badge game
One official Badge Challenges path asked attendees to catch all Hackermon and become Hackermon master, with a HITCON CMT 2018 ticket as the award.
badge game
The second official Badge Challenges path was Master of Snake, also tied to a HITCON CMT 2018 ticket prize.
display and input platform
The JLCPCB BOM lists 128 LED designators for the matrix and eight TL3301-style tactile switches, matching the firmware row/column refresh and button-scan notes.
distribution policy
The KKTIX page tied the limited deluxe electronic badge to Premium Pass tickets, while the official events page said a few electric badges would be released for attendee purchase during the conference.
distribution policy
HITCON described the Wallet badge as coming with Royal VIP and Premium Passes, with the KKTIX page documenting limited electronic-board inclusion for VIP and Premium tickets.
event game
The official 2018 pages introduced digital currency into souvenirs, HITCON Token collection, and Hacker Cat upgrades alongside the Wallet badge context.
event game
The official guide describes Red-vs-Blue tower capture behavior as a team game played through the badge ecosystem.
event mechanic
HITCON placed card readers and mini-games at booths and scattered around the venue, letting attendees activate interactions with their badge.
event mechanic
The 2024 activity system used the PCB badge as an attendee score surface across HITCON activities and games.
event mechanic
Attendees could unlock badge LEDs by solving the board puzzle or completing sponsor booth challenges, with all LEDs unlocked leading to a HITCON lottery chance.
firmware target
The public repository README documents hardware-version selection through V2.2 for the 2025 attendee badge in STM32CubeIDE.
hardware architecture
The official events page says HITCON Wallet contained a Secure Element CoolWallet, electronic paper, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy.
hardware architecture
HITCON's official events page says the 2017 electronic badge was powered by a MediaTek chipset and included Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, joystick/game-controller input, infrared, and an LED display.
historical-platform boundary
HITCON separately describes a Badge Quest for 2024 or 2025 PCB badges flashed with event firmware. That older-board activity is retained as historical context rather than evidence that the 2026 NTAG215 attendee badge is a PCB, has a controller, or receives the same firmware.
microcontroller
The repository production CSV identifies the V2.2 badge controller as an STM32F103CBT6 in an LQFP-48 package.
planned attendee social interaction
The official NFC Battle description asks attendees to tap a phone against another attendee's badge to complete an exchange, unlock collectible cards, and rank by cards collected. It does not identify the card payload, tag-memory configuration, app, backend, account linkage, privacy handling, or security model.
protocol notes
The repository BadUSB notes document HID report framing, script loading, command bytes, and custom-HID interface context for writing scripts to the badge.
security challenge
The badge challenge used ARM TrustZone separation with non-secure and secure stages, command-line interaction, snake warm-up behavior, and unlock states.
sensors
The production CSV identifies an IRM-H638T IR receiver and an LSM6DS3TR-C motion sensor, grounding the badge's IR and movement-scoring surfaces in the hardware archive.
social badge interaction
The 2024 badge guide describes docking badges with other attendees and game battle behavior, making the physical badge a social interaction device.
social badge interaction
The 2025 guide documents cross-board interaction and game-battle behavior, pairing badge-to-badge play with Tetris, Dino, and Snake activities.
software and security claim
HITCON said badge holders could use the device after the event as an offline physical wallet for Bitcoin or Ethereum, but this catalogue pass does not independently verify wallet security or firmware implementation.
ticket-package identity artifact
HITCON's published ticket-package conditions explicitly list an attendee badge for eligible package categories, collected onsite. The reviewed ticket page does not establish a complete all-tier allocation ledger, exact badge handoff process, physical form, material, or final participant receipt.
workshop booth
The Activity Team booth provided NFC card readers so attendees could learn about common ID-card operation and inspect the contents inside their badge.
workshop support
HITCON documented programmer and FTDI support at the activity desk for attendees working with the PCB badge.
2024/2025 PCB Badge Quest separation · official 2026 programme wording · older PCB-board activity explicitly separated
No historic HITCON PCB hardware, controller, firmware, game, connector, display, or BadUSB claim is carried forward into the narrower 2026 NFC attendee-badge record.
NFC data, protocol, privacy, and security boundary · official NFC Battle programme description · NTAG215 and exchange activity documented; implementation unreleased
The record exposes the announced NFC interaction without implying a specific protocol, data model, privacy practice, security property, reader/writer capability, or safe handling guidance.
distribution and original-badge caveat · primary source · documented
The record distinguishes the Wallet electronic board from the regular conference credential and avoids implying universal attendee distribution.
distribution scope caveat · primary source · documented
The record should not imply every 2017 attendee received this electronic badge.
hardware and firmware archive gap · source-backed but incomplete · needs public technical archive
The catalogue preserves the official badge and activity evidence while avoiding unverified security, blockchain, or component-level claims.
hardware-detail caveat · source-backed but intentionally narrow · needs public technical archive
The dossier records the verified platform and challenge claims while avoiding unsupported component-level or firmware claims.
hardware-detail caveat · source-backed but intentionally narrow · needs public schematic or firmware archive
The dossier records the verified interaction model while avoiding unsupported component-level claims.
hardware-detail caveat · source-backed but intentionally narrow · needs public technical archive
The dossier records the verified interaction model while avoiding unsupported component-level or security-primitive claims.
missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The entry ships without a hero image rather than using generated, placeholder, or unlicensed imagery.
missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The 2017 HITCON entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or using generated/placeholder art.
missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The 2024 HITCON entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or using generated/placeholder art.
missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The 2025 HITCON entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or using generated/placeholder art.
missing rights-cleared image · official media and image-policy review · needs selected, attributable, cleared original
The HITCON 2026 attendee badge remains image-free rather than copying event graphics, page screenshots, ticketing media, or any other visual without complete reuse provenance.
missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The 2018 HITCON Wallet entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or publishing generated badge art.
missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The Taiwanese HITCON 2023 entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event images or using generated placeholder art.
pre-event allocation, physical-form, and credential boundary · official event and organizer ticketing sources · planned identity artifact; final allocation and form unreleased
The catalogue records a planned event-specific attendee artifact without claiming that every registrant received it, that every ticket tier includes it, or that it functions as an admission/access credential.
remaining hardware caveat · source-backed but intentionally narrow · BOM and production notes recovered; still needs shipped-count and image provenance
The dossier records the verified interaction, production, and technical-archive surface while avoiding unsupported production-scale and image-provenance claims.