Issue dossier
Payment Village's official 2026 schedule includes an Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge, while the historical DEF CON 33 programme describes the 2025 object. Neither source says the 2025 hardware remains unchanged, will return as a physical unit, is newly issued in 2026, or is the same as the separate volunteer village badge announced for DEF CON 34.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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historical versus current programme boundary · official 2026 schedule plus historical programme archive · 2025 artifact and 2026 teaching reference kept separate
The catalogue preserves cross-year educational continuity without inventing a 2026 hardware revision, reissue, allocation, or relationship among distinct Payment Village artifacts.
- Badge
- Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
- Category
- historical versus current programme boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- official 2026 schedule plus historical programme archive
- Status
- 2025 artifact and 2026 teaching reference kept separate
- Timeframe
- 2025-2026
- Source note
- Payment Village official DEF CON 34 programme and preserved DEF CON 33 programme copy.
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