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The recovered programme establishes a named large physical ATM attack-surface simulation, but does not publish a board, electronics, readers, card interfaces, controller, display, lights, power system, enclosure, dimensions, weight, internal mechanism, final unit, firmware, application, challenge environment, source archive, operating procedure, safety guidance, or test result. The current 2026 introductory talk does not close those gaps.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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hardware, software, and operational-detail gap · historical programme description · named large physical educational artifact; implementation unrecovered
The catalogue records the real high-level artifact without publishing operational payment-security instructions or turning programme language into a technical teardown, safety assessment, or reproducible design.
- Badge
- Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
- Category
- hardware, software, and operational-detail gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- historical programme description
- Status
- named large physical educational artifact; implementation unrecovered
- Timeframe
- DEF CON 33 and current 2026 teaching reference
- Source note
- Preserved DEF CON 33 programme copy and Payment Village's official DEF CON 34 programme.
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
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