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The sources use hackable-badge and competition language, and the official event page now labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge, but they publish no platform or app behind that digital label, no PCB, controller, components, display, power system, connector, radio, sensor, schematic, BOM, Gerber, firmware, source, binary, protocol, toolchain, flashing path, challenge rules, scoring model, test plan, safety guidance, or licence.
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hardware, firmware, and challenge-implementation gap · official high-level challenge wording · digital artifact label published; no technical release recovered
The record does not turn a planned interactive challenge and digital-artifact label into an electronic specification, a reproducible workflow, or a safe operating instruction.
- Badge
- CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge
- Category
- hardware, firmware, and challenge-implementation gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- official high-level challenge wording
- Status
- digital artifact label published; no technical release recovered
- Timeframe
- 2026 pre-event source pass
- Source note
- CyberThreat official event page and SANS CyberThreat 2026 registration page.
official event page
CyberThreat's official page identifies the November 16-17 Roundhouse, London event and advertises an interactive hackable badge challenge. Its benefits copy labels the artifact a Digital Event Badge with the wording You don't just wear it, hack it - explore, attack and solve challenges throughout the event, while the event description cites team problem solving and hackable badge challenges. It still does not name a platform, app, PCB, or controller, and does not describe delivery or technical implementation.
Badge: CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge
official registration page
SANS's official 2026 event page gives the dates and Roundhouse location, says CyberThreat 2026 features hackable badges, and lists a Hackable Badge Competition in the in-person offer. It does not say that every registrant receives a badge or identify the competition's hardware or software.
Badge: CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge
CyberThreat / SANS Institute · retrieved 2026-09-28
Primary official source for CyberThreat's planned November 16-17, 2026 London event and its stated interactive hackable badge challenge. The September 28, 2026 recheck found the benefits copy labelling the artifact a Digital Event Badge that delegates wear and hack to explore, attack, and solve challenges throughout the event. It is a programme and artifact-label statement, not a 2026 hardware, allocation, fulfilment, or image-rights release.
Badge: CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge
SANS Institute · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official registration source for the November 16-17 Roundhouse event, the statement that the 2026 programme features hackable badges, and the in-person Hackable Badge Competition listing. It does not identify a badge unit, recipient, technical architecture, challenge implementation, or final handoff.
Badge: CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge