Hacker Con Badges

PWNEDCR

PWNEDCR 0x08

The October 18-19, 2025 PWNEDCR edition in San José, represented by a named post-event account that documents a hackable electronic badge as part of the conference CTF. No retained official 0x08 archive, technical release, maker credit, or rights-cleared badge image was recovered.

Auditorio Nacional, Centro Costarricense de Ciencia y Cultura, San José, Costa Rica · Costa Rica · 2025

PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge

A conservative PWNEDCR 0x08 record: a named post-event account says the October 18-19, 2025 San José conference used a hackable electronic badge as part of its CTF, with hidden Easter eggs and challenges. It supports the reality of a physical electronic badge but publishes no component, firmware, maker, production, or reusable-image documentation.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge named post-event account

post-event event context

October 18-19 San José event context

The report places PWNEDCR 0x08 at Auditorio Nacional in the Centro Costarricense de Ciencia y Cultura in San José, Costa Rica on October 18-19, 2025, with three simultaneous tracks and more than 650 attendees. That event context does not identify badge quantity, eligibility, registration tier, price, pickup, delivery, admission role, or universal attendee distribution.

Compatibility: PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge

PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge named post-event account

source-described badge interaction

Hackable CTF and hidden-challenge surface

The report says the electronic badge was hackable, had already been hacked by at least three people during the CTF, and contained hidden Easter eggs and challenges integral to that competition. It does not describe the challenge design, interfaces, exploitation path, firmware, scoring, data handling, or any completed participant outcome.

Compatibility: PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge note

CTF, distribution, and credential scope gap · named post-event account · event interaction documented; issuance terms unknown

The report links the badge to CTF hacking and describes hidden challenges, but does not document participant eligibility, badge count, price, registration tier, badge distribution, pickup, delivery, access-control role, challenge rules, scoring, data handling, completion, support, or whether every attendee received one.

The badge is not presented as an admission credential, universal attendee entitlement, complete CTF platform, or verified distribution record.

PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge note

hardware and firmware archive gap · named post-event account · electronic and hackable classification only

The recovered account establishes an electronic, hackable CTF badge but names no MCU, board, display, LEDs, radio, power system, connector, schematic, BOM, fabrication files, firmware, source, binary, app, protocol, toolchain, license, update path, or maker.

The catalogue deliberately stops at source-described electronic and interactive behavior rather than inventing a technical architecture or user workflow.

PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge note

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy and source review · needs selected, attributable, cleared original

No PWNEDCR 0x08 badge image is published because the current official site and named retrospective do not pair a selected factual badge image with a reusable license or explicit permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.

The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying generic stock art, event graphics, screenshots, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge note

primary-source archive gap · reviewed public-source boundary · current official home has rolled to 0x9

The live PWNEDCR home currently presents 0x9, while no retained public 0x08 official event page, badge announcement, technical repository, or historical organizer archive was recovered. The named Fluid Attacks report is the available artifact-level evidence.

The dossier treats that report as enough to establish a real 2025 electronic badge without representing it as an official 0x08 archive or independent technical corroboration.

Resources

PWNEDCR official site current official series home · Organizer-controlled PWNEDCR home reviewed on 2026-08-04. It is currently the PWNEDCR 0x9 site, so it establishes live series continuity only and does not preserve a historical 0x08 event page, badge archive, maker credit, technical release, allocation record, or image-reuse basis. Best of PWNEDCR 0x08 named post-event account · Fluid Attacks' named post-event account is the recovered artifact-level source for PWNEDCR 0x08. It documents the 2025 event context, a physical electronic badge that attendees hacked through the CTF, and hidden Easter eggs/challenges. It publishes no technical archive or badge-maker credit; its generic Unsplash skull visual is not a factual badge photo or reusable-image basis.

Sources

Fluid Attacks / Simón Correa: Best of PWNEDCR 0x08 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Named post-event account documenting PWNEDCR 0x08 on October 18-19, 2025 at the Auditorio Nacional / Centro Costarricense de Ciencia y Cultura in San José; it describes an electronic badge, badge hacking during the CTF, and hidden Easter eggs/challenges. It is sufficient evidence of the real artifact and event context, but not a hardware, firmware, badge-maker, allocation, delivery, or reusable-image archive. PWNEDCR: PWNEDCR 0x9 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Current organizer-controlled PWNEDCR home establishing only live series continuity as reviewed on 2026-08-04. It has rolled to 0x9 and does not itself evidence the 2025 0x08 badge, venue, dates, technical design, distribution, authorship, or image rights.