Issue dossier
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
The compendium records observed behavior and published challenge paths while avoiding unsupported claims about the badge's internal firmware architecture.
Evidence
Contemporary source documenting the skull badge, mini processor, buttons, printed codes, Konami Code behavior, 1o57 authorship, and media-server badge-contest files.
Contemporary feature source for Ryan Clarke / 1o57 attribution, robot-skull badge form, roughly 20,000 badges, and last-minute badge programming context.
Official DEF CON source for 2016 Paris/Bally's event context, badge contest forum link, Council of 9 badge walkthrough link, CD torrents, and black-badge references.
Wikimedia Commons source for Hanno Böck's CC0 photograph of the DEF CON 24 press badge front side.
InfoconDB metadata for the DEF CON 24 welcome and badge talk with Jeff Moss and Ryan Clarke / LosT presenter attribution.
Winner-published walkthrough documenting the DEF CON 24 badge contest path, Council of 9 attribution, multi-day clue flow, and final solution context.
Technical challenge writeup documenting room keys, standee glyphs, hidden traces, silkscreen strings, Konami serial dump, lanyards, conference CD, and program equations.
Source trail
Winner walkthrough source for Council of 9 attribution, final badge-contest path, clue aggregation, and DEF CON 24 challenge solution context.
Official archive source for DEF CON 24 event context, badge contest forum link, Council of 9 badge walkthrough link, CD torrents, and black-badge material.
Challenge writeup source for room keys, standee glyphs, hidden traces, badge silkscreen, serial strings, Konami unlock, lanyards, CD files, and program equations.
Contemporary source for Ryan Clarke / 1o57 attribution, robot-skull electronics, badge-production crunch, and approximate 20,000-badge scale.
Talk metadata source for DEF CON 24 badge-talk timing and Jeff Moss / Ryan Clarke presenter attribution.
Contemporary source for skull badge, mini processor, buttons, printed codes, Konami Code behavior, 1o57 authorship, and badge-contest media files.
CC0 source image for Hanno Böck's original photograph of the DEF CON 24 press badge front side; used only for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.