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The official site separately documents the concluded 2026 CTF and a ticket-included Event Badge, but no reviewed source connects them technically or publishes badge hardware, firmware, app, repository, protocol, challenge behavior, source release, maker credit, support path, or safety/privacy characteristics.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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technical and CTF-linkage gap · official event, schedule, ticket, and CTF-page review · separate CTF documented; badge technology unreported
No electronic, software, CTF, radio, power, data-use, or operational claim is inferred from the shared conference context.
- Badge
- BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
- Category
- technical and CTF-linkage gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- official event, schedule, ticket, and CTF-page review
- Status
- separate CTF documented; badge technology unreported
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- BSides Chennai 2026 official event, ticket, schedule, and CTF pages.
official CTF status page
Primary organizer page recording that the separate 2026 CTF has concluded. It provides event context only; it does not identify a technical connection to the Event Badge.
Badge: BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
official event page
Primary organizer page establishing Security BSides Chennai Conference 2026, the community-driven cybersecurity-conference framing, May 23 CTF and May 30 conference dates, and Turyaa Hotel OMR venue context.
Badge: BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
official event schedule
Primary organizer schedule for the May 30 Turyaa Hotel OMR conference day, including registration, talks, villages, and closing CTF-winner announcement.
Badge: BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
official ticket page
Primary organizer ticket page that lists an Event Badge among the Last Bird ticket inclusions. Its displayed sale window is now past, so it is retained as pre-event offer evidence rather than a current availability, allocation, or fulfilment record.
Badge: BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
Security BSides Chennai · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official status source that says the 2026 CTF has concluded; it does not document a badge challenge, firmware, hardware, or other technical linkage.
Badge: BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
Security BSides Chennai · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official programme source for the May 30 conference at Turyaa Hotel OMR and closing CTF-winner announcement.
Badge: BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
Security BSides Chennai · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official source for the 2026 Chennai community cybersecurity-conference identity, May 23 CTF / May 30 conference schedule, and Turyaa Hotel OMR venue.
Badge: BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
Security BSides Chennai · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official source for the Last Bird package's Event Badge inclusion. Its stale sales presentation is treated as historical pre-event ticket language, not proof of a current offering, handoff, or recipient allocation.
Badge: BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge