CactusCon

CactusCon 8

The December 6-7, 2019 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose official registration sources distinguish printed-badge and electronic-badge ticket types without exposing hardware, firmware, or image reuse rights.

Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona · United States · 2019

CactusCon 8 Electronic Badge

CactusCon 8 is seeded as a conservative ticket-type badge record because official registration pages for the December 2019 Mesa event say CactusCon attendees received either a printed badge or an electronic badge depending on ticket type.

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Issues & Camp Impact

earlier-lineage caveat · source-limited · documented; monitor newly surfaced archives

The CactusCon 8 registration update says electronic badges were available "as always", which hints at earlier CactusCon electronic-badge years, but the current early-lineage pass only recovered artifact-level evidence for the 2014 PCB badge, 2017 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth scanner badge, and 2018 paid badge option.

CactusCon 2012-2013 and 2015-2016 stay explicit negative coverage until primary event pages, ticket text, badge-team archives, photos with reuse rights, repositories, or other artifact-level public sources surface.

hardware-detail caveat · official registration source · needs hardware archive recovery

The recovered official sources prove that CactusCon 8 offered an electronic badge option and issued printed or electronic badges by ticket type, but they do not describe electronics, manufacturer, firmware, challenge behavior, production count, final appearance, or distribution beyond ticket entitlement.

The catalogue records the badge as a real registration-tier artifact without upgrading it into a specific PCB platform or game badge.

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