Issue dossier
The recovered sources do not state who could receive, buy, borrow, use, or keep the Vulnerable ATM Badge; whether it was a conference credential; whether it was a shared village installation; how many units existed; whether it was completed or handed out; or whether it could provide access to DEF CON or any village activity.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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allocation, ownership, and credential boundary · source-conservative public record · event object documented; recipient and access role unrecovered
The record does not describe the item as an attendee entitlement, a DEF CON-issued Human badge, a volunteer badge, a personal device, or a completed distribution run.
- Badge
- Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
- Category
- allocation, ownership, and credential boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- source-conservative public record
- Status
- event object documented; recipient and access role unrecovered
- Timeframe
- 2025 programme and 2026 follow-up
- Source note
- Payment Village DEF CON 33 page, preserved DEF CON 33 programme copy, and Payment Village DEF CON 34 programme.
Evidence
Related Resources
official current event programme
Payment Village's official 2026 programme schedules Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge on Friday and Saturday. It corroborates current teaching continuity only; it does not establish a new 2026 badge issue, an unchanged design, or a relationship to the separate volunteer village-badge credential.
Badge: Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
official event page
Payment Village's own historical event page identifies its DEF CON 33 programme context and links the 2025 talks/workshops and Capture the Coin material. It does not describe the Vulnerable ATM Badge itself, its allocation, final form, or image rights.
Badge: Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
preserved conference-programme copy
Preserved 2025 DEF CON programme copy that contains Payment Village's contemporaneous statement that it created the Vulnerable ATM Badge, described as the largest badge at DEF CON that year and a two-handed physical ATM attack-surface simulation. It is a historical programme archive, not a component-level design, final-unit inventory, or image-reuse source.
Badge: Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
Source trail
Evidence Sources
DEF CON 33 programme archive · retrieved 2026-05-15
Preserved contemporaneous programme copy with the exact 2025 Payment Village Vulnerable ATM Badge description: largest badge at DEF CON that year, physical form factor carried with two hands, and simulated ATM attack surfaces. The archived copy is used for this narrow historical claim only.
Badge: Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
Payment Village · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer source for the 2025 Payment Village DEF CON 33 event lineage. Its currently preserved page establishes event context but does not itself state technical, allocation, handoff, or image-rights details for the Vulnerable ATM Badge.
Badge: Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
Payment Village · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary current organizer programme that lists Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge twice. It supports continued public educational reference, not a new release, electronic specification, or fulfillment claim.
Badge: Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge