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BSides Greenville 2023

The October 28, 2023 Greenville Security BSides conference. Its public event listing and a contemporaneous conference announcement document Circuit Board Medics-led soldering that transformed conference badges into Wi-Fi analyzers; an attendee later reported making one. The reviewed sources do not identify the underlying badge board, completed distribution, firmware, or a rights-cleared artifact image.

Fluor Corporation campus, Greenville, South Carolina · United States · 2023

BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge

A public BSides Greenville 2023 event listing says the Circuit Board Medics Soldering Village would help participants solder and transform a conference badge. A contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement says the conference badges could become Wi-Fi analyzers and identifies Circuit Board Medics as the team that designed the badges. A public attendee report after the event says that its author made a Wi-Fi analyzer at BSidesGVL. Together, these sources establish a real event-linked badge-conversion activity without identifying the original board or the resulting analyzer's components.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge public event listing and contemporaneous conference announcement

event-programme hardware activity

Circuit Board Medics soldering-village conversion

The public 2023 event listing says Circuit Board Medics would help participants solder and transform their conference badge, while the contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement says the badges could become Wi-Fi analyzers and the team would be on hand with soldering stations.

Compatibility: BSides Greenville 2023 conference-badge conversion activity only; sources do not identify the starting badge form, conversion kit, required skill, tool access, component set, output configuration, safety controls, or availability to every attendee.

BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge public attendee report

post-event first-hand outcome

Attendee-reported Wi-Fi-analyzer outcome

A public attendee activity message says the attendee made a Wi-Fi analyzer at BSidesGVL, corroborating that the advertised conversion occurred for at least one reported participant.

Compatibility: One public attendee report only; it does not establish a working specification, result verification, participant count, badge allocation, completed build rate, event-wide operation, or a security-testing capability.

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge note

badge form, distribution, and credential boundary · event-programme wording and attendee report · event-linked badge documented; form and allocation unresolved

The source material calls the starting item a conference badge and says it could be transformed, but does not establish whether it was electronic before conversion, whether it was a PCB, whether an add-on was supplied, who could participate, ticket-tier eligibility, badge quantity, component-kit count, completed build count, replacement policy, or whether it operated as an admission credential.

The record remains a source-backed event artifact rather than an unsupported universal-attendee, access-control, or electronic-hardware claim.

BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge note

hardware, soldering, and software archive boundary · public event and attendee-source review · conversion activity documented; technical archive not recovered

The reviewed sources establish a conference-badge transformation activity and a reported Wi-Fi-analyzer outcome, but no schematic, BOM, Gerbers, PCB source, conversion instructions, component list, firmware, software, licence, source repository, build instructions, power guidance, radio configuration, or test record was recovered.

The compendium records the physical badge-conversion activity without inventing a circuit, analyzer implementation, radio behavior, data-collection practice, safe build procedure, or reproducible technical design.

BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge note

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement

No BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge note

post-event source-depth boundary · public-source recovery · dated programme sources plus one profile-surfaced attendee outcome

The recovered trail consists of a dated public event listing, a contemporaneous public announcement, and an attendee-profile message visible without a direct activity permalink. No organizer post-event report, badge-team archive, source release, build gallery with reusable rights, production account, or detailed attendee account was recovered.

The entry distinguishes a corroborated reported build from a comprehensive post-event technical, manufacturing, fulfillment, or image-provenance record.

Resources

BSidesGVL 2023 conference announcement contemporaneous public conference announcement · Mike Holcomb's contemporaneous public BSidesGVL announcement naming the Fluor venue, badge-to-Wi-Fi-analyzer framing, and Circuit Board Medics badge-design/soldering role. It is not a technical release or image-reuse grant. BSides Greenville official site official series and organizer site · Current official BSides Greenville site establishing the Greenville series and its organizer context. It is retained as series context, not used as a retrospective technical or distribution archive for the 2023 badge. BSides Greenville 2023 public event listing public event listing · CyberSC's dated 2023 event listing for the October 28 Greenville conference and its stated Circuit Board Medics Soldering Village activity to transform a conference badge. BSidesGVL attendee Wi-Fi-analyzer report public first-hand attendee report · Brian Herring's public LinkedIn profile displays an attendee activity message reporting that BSidesGVL was fun and that the author made a Wi-Fi analyzer. No direct activity permalink, badge photo rights, component list, or independent technical archive was recovered.

Sources

BSides Greenville / Upstate SC Chapter of ISSA: BSides Greenville official site Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official current series and organizer context. Its reviewed current page does not retrospectively document the 2023 badge hardware, allocation, or conversion procedure. Brian Herring: BSidesGVL attendee Wi-Fi-analyzer report Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public attendee-profile activity reporting a personal Wi-Fi-analyzer build at BSidesGVL. This corroborates a completed hands-on outcome, but no direct activity permalink, analyzer specification, badge serial, source release, or universal-attendee conclusion was recovered. CyberSC: BSides Greenville 2023 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public dated event listing for the October 28, 2023 Greenville conference and the stated Circuit Board Medics Soldering Village conference-badge transformation activity. It is event-programme evidence, not a final hardware archive, manufacture report, or image license. Mike Holcomb: BSidesGVL 2023 conference announcement Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporaneous public BSidesGVL announcement stating that the conference badges could become Wi-Fi analyzers and that Circuit Board Medics designed the badges and would assist with assembly. It does not identify components, firmware, ticket allocation, or a post-event delivery ledger.