BSides Roanoke
The completed June 5, 2026 BSides Roanoke at Virginia Western Community College, whose organizer-operated ticket listing included a General Admission badge and whose dedicated ShenLabs page explicitly identifies itself as the event's 2026 badge challenge, without describing the badge's construction or electronics.
Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke, Virginia · United States · 2026
BSides Roanoke 2026's organizer-operated General Admission listing explicitly included a badge. A separate ShenLabs website declares itself a work of fiction created for the BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge. Together they support an admission-badge and web-puzzle record, but do not identify a physical link, electronics, or an embedded challenge mechanism.
Lifecycle
The Roanoke InfoSec Exchange Inc ticket listing offers General Admission w/Badge and says the ticket includes a T-shirt, badge, and lunch.
The ShenLabs footer states that the fictional site was created for the BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge, using clearance and decryption framing; it does not establish that the web experience ran on, or was physically encoded into, the attendee badge.
Operational history
The record is modeled as a participant admission/identity artifact and does not infer a paper badge, electronic badge, or technical design.
The catalogue can document the declared challenge companion without claiming that it was firmware, a badge-hosted application, or a particular physical interaction.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event media, ticket graphics, screenshots, social-media photos, placeholders, or generated approximations.