Issue dossier
The phrase VIP Assembled Badge and the event's hardware-hacking activity do not identify an electronic badge, PCB, kit, material, artwork, QR/RFID/NFC function, controller, battery, display, connector, schematic, BOM, firmware, app, challenge linkage, binary, source release, licence, flashing path, or physical credential behavior.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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hardware and software specification gap · ticket wording and event activity context only · no artifact-level technical release recovered
The record remains an explicitly ticket-listed identity artifact rather than inventing electronics, software, CTF integration, or a finished construction from a tier name.
- Badge
- HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
- Category
- hardware and software specification gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- ticket wording and event activity context only
- Status
- no artifact-level technical release recovered
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event source review
- Source note
- HackNWA official event page, organizer announcement, registration page, and contemporaneous ticket listing.
contemporaneous third-party ticket listing
AllEvents' contemporaneous listing reproduces the event date and identifies USD 55 General Admission and a USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge ticket category. It is retained narrowly for the otherwise unavailable ticket-tier wording and price, not as proof of hardware, contents, manufacture, fulfillment, or organizer intent beyond the advertised tier.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
official conference page
Official event page for the April 17, 2026 Bentonville cybersecurity conference. It establishes the event and its advertised CTF, ASMb1337, and hardware-hacking context, but does not describe the VIP Assembled Badge ticket category or its contents.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
official organizer social announcement
HackNWA's official LinkedIn post announces the April 17 event, venue, CTF, Solder Village, and Badge/Hardware Hacking activity. It supports conference context only; it does not identify a badge design, ticket tier, or technical specification.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
organizer-linked Eventbrite registration
The official HackNWA site links to this Eventbrite registration page. Its current post-event state identifies HackNWA as organizer and marks ticket sales ended, but no longer exposes ticket-class details or a fulfillment record.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
AllEvents · retrieved 2026-05-15
Contemporaneous secondary ticket listing naming USD 55 General Admission and USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge. It corroborates an advertised ticket-tier artifact after the official registration page stopped exposing tiers, but it does not establish materials, electronics, contents, production, collection, delivery, recipients, or final event outcome.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
HackNWA · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer source for the completed April 17, 2026 Shewmaker Center event and its CTF, ASMb1337, and hardware-hacking activity. It does not mention the VIP Assembled Badge ticket category.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
HackNWA · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer social announcement for the April 17 event, two tracks, CTF, Solder Village, and Badge/Hardware Hacking activities. It does not establish a relationship between those activities and a particular badge tier or device.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
HackNWA / Eventbrite · retrieved 2026-05-15
Organizer-linked primary registration endpoint. In its current completed-event state it identifies HackNWA as the organizer and ticket sales as ended, but it does not preserve the historical ticket-class names, prices, purchase records, or fulfillment information.
Badge: HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge