Issue dossier
The source material calls the starting item a conference badge and says it could be transformed, but does not establish whether it was electronic before conversion, whether it was a PCB, whether an add-on was supplied, who could participate, ticket-tier eligibility, badge quantity, component-kit count, completed build count, replacement policy, or whether it operated as an admission credential.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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badge form, distribution, and credential boundary · event-programme wording and attendee report · event-linked badge documented; form and allocation unresolved
The record remains a source-backed event artifact rather than an unsupported universal-attendee, access-control, or electronic-hardware claim.
- Badge
- BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
- Category
- badge form, distribution, and credential boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- event-programme wording and attendee report
- Status
- event-linked badge documented; form and allocation unresolved
- Timeframe
- 2023 post-event record
- Source note
- CyberSC's BSides Greenville 2023 listing and Mike Holcomb's contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement.
contemporaneous public conference announcement
Mike Holcomb's contemporaneous public BSidesGVL announcement naming the Fluor venue, badge-to-Wi-Fi-analyzer framing, and Circuit Board Medics badge-design/soldering role. It is not a technical release or image-reuse grant.
Badge: BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
official series and organizer site
Current official BSides Greenville site establishing the Greenville series and its organizer context. It is retained as series context, not used as a retrospective technical or distribution archive for the 2023 badge.
Badge: BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
public event listing
CyberSC's dated 2023 event listing for the October 28 Greenville conference and its stated Circuit Board Medics Soldering Village activity to transform a conference badge.
Badge: BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
public first-hand attendee report
Brian Herring's public LinkedIn profile displays an attendee activity message reporting that BSidesGVL was fun and that the author made a Wi-Fi analyzer. No direct activity permalink, badge photo rights, component list, or independent technical archive was recovered.
Badge: BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
BSides Greenville / Upstate SC Chapter of ISSA · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official current series and organizer context. Its reviewed current page does not retrospectively document the 2023 badge hardware, allocation, or conversion procedure.
Badge: BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
Brian Herring · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public attendee-profile activity reporting a personal Wi-Fi-analyzer build at BSidesGVL. This corroborates a completed hands-on outcome, but no direct activity permalink, analyzer specification, badge serial, source release, or universal-attendee conclusion was recovered.
Badge: BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
CyberSC · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public dated event listing for the October 28, 2023 Greenville conference and the stated Circuit Board Medics Soldering Village conference-badge transformation activity. It is event-programme evidence, not a final hardware archive, manufacture report, or image license.
Badge: BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
Mike Holcomb · retrieved 2026-05-15
Contemporaneous public BSidesGVL announcement stating that the conference badges could become Wi-Fi analyzers and that Circuit Board Medics designed the badges and would assist with assembly. It does not identify components, firmware, ticket allocation, or a post-event delivery ledger.
Badge: BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge