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Payment Village at DEF CON 33

The completed August 7-10, 2025 Payment Village at DEF CON 33. A preserved programme copy describes its Vulnerable ATM Badge as a large physical simulator of ATM attack surfaces that could be carried with two hands, while the organizer's own DEF CON 33 page confirms the event lineage. No public technical, allocation, image-rights, or final-handoff record was recovered.

Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada · United States · 2025

Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge

A preserved DEF CON 33 programme describes Payment Village's Vulnerable ATM Badge as the conference's largest badge that year: a physical form factor attendees could carry with two hands, built to simulate ATM attack surfaces. Payment Village's own DEF CON 33 page confirms the village/event context, while its 2026 schedule still lists an Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge. The recovered sources establish the named physical educational artifact, not its electronics, a reusable current build, or a 2026 reissue.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge scheduled pre-event at DEF CON 34

current teaching reference

2026 introductory-programme continuity

Payment Village's official 2026 programme schedules Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge on Friday and Saturday. This identifies an ongoing instructional reference only; it does not state that the 2025 object will be issued again, demonstrate its final 2025 configuration, or connect it to a 2026 volunteer credential.

Compatibility: Payment Village at DEF CON 34 programme; no new hardware allocation inferred

Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge documented in preserved 2025 programme

programme-described educational artifact

Two-handed physical ATM attack-surface simulation

The preserved DEF CON 33 programme calls the Vulnerable ATM Badge the largest badge at the conference that year and says it simulates ATM attack surfaces in a physical form factor that can be carried with two hands. It does not provide an operating procedure, board or module inventory, safety assessment, or proof of a final attendee-owned unit.

Compatibility: Payment Village at DEF CON 33 educational context; not a claim of official DEF CON Human-badge status or a reusable technical platform

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge note

allocation, ownership, and credential boundary · source-conservative public record · event object documented; recipient and access role unrecovered

The recovered sources do not state who could receive, buy, borrow, use, or keep the Vulnerable ATM Badge; whether it was a conference credential; whether it was a shared village installation; how many units existed; whether it was completed or handed out; or whether it could provide access to DEF CON or any village activity.

The record does not describe the item as an attendee entitlement, a DEF CON-issued Human badge, a volunteer badge, a personal device, or a completed distribution run.

Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge note

hardware, software, and operational-detail gap · historical programme description · named large physical educational artifact; implementation unrecovered

The recovered programme establishes a named large physical ATM attack-surface simulation, but does not publish a board, electronics, readers, card interfaces, controller, display, lights, power system, enclosure, dimensions, weight, internal mechanism, final unit, firmware, application, challenge environment, source archive, operating procedure, safety guidance, or test result. The current 2026 introductory talk does not close those gaps.

The catalogue records the real high-level artifact without publishing operational payment-security instructions or turning programme language into a technical teardown, safety assessment, or reproducible design.

Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge note

historical versus current programme boundary · official 2026 schedule plus historical programme archive · 2025 artifact and 2026 teaching reference kept separate

Payment Village's official 2026 schedule includes an Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge, while the historical DEF CON 33 programme describes the 2025 object. Neither source says the 2025 hardware remains unchanged, will return as a physical unit, is newly issued in 2026, or is the same as the separate volunteer village badge announced for DEF CON 34.

The catalogue preserves cross-year educational continuity without inventing a 2026 hardware revision, reissue, allocation, or relationship among distinct Payment Village artifacts.

Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge note

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

No Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM 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.

Resources

Payment Village at DEF CON 34 official current event programme · Payment Village's official 2026 programme schedules Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge on Friday and Saturday. It corroborates current teaching continuity only; it does not establish a new 2026 badge issue, an unchanged design, or a relationship to the separate volunteer village-badge credential. Payment Village DEF CON 33 official event page · Payment Village's own historical event page identifies its DEF CON 33 programme context and links the 2025 talks/workshops and Capture the Coin material. It does not describe the Vulnerable ATM Badge itself, its allocation, final form, or image rights. DEF CON 33 programme archive preserved conference-programme copy · Preserved 2025 DEF CON programme copy that contains Payment Village's contemporaneous statement that it created the Vulnerable ATM Badge, described as the largest badge at DEF CON that year and a two-handed physical ATM attack-surface simulation. It is a historical programme archive, not a component-level design, final-unit inventory, or image-reuse source.

Sources

DEF CON 33 programme archive: DEF CON 33 programme Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Preserved contemporaneous programme copy with the exact 2025 Payment Village Vulnerable ATM Badge description: largest badge at DEF CON that year, physical form factor carried with two hands, and simulated ATM attack surfaces. The archived copy is used for this narrow historical claim only. Payment Village: Payment Village DEF CON 33 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary organizer source for the 2025 Payment Village DEF CON 33 event lineage. Its currently preserved page establishes event context but does not itself state technical, allocation, handoff, or image-rights details for the Vulnerable ATM Badge. Payment Village: Payment Village at DEF CON 34 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary current organizer programme that lists Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge twice. It supports continued public educational reference, not a new release, electronic specification, or fulfillment claim.