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The repository description calls The Shattered Shard a DEF CON 34 RM-Cyber challenge badge, while its Player Guide addresses an assigned badge. No reviewed DEF CON, RM-Cyber, venue, or organizer source confirms the publisher's relationship; organizer authorization; price; sale/giveaway; physical run; recipient criteria; assigned-badge allocation; pickup; shipping; completed handoff; admission or access role; support; or post-event result.
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independent DEF CON association, RM-Cyber relationship, allocation, and credential boundary · public repository description and Player Guide · pre-event source project documented; organization relationship and handoff unverified
The catalogue preserves the source's current event association and distinct project name without presenting it as an official DEF CON badge, an RM-Cyber-issued artifact, a guaranteed attendee benefit, an access credential, a completed release, or proof that any participant received one.
- Badge
- The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
- Category
- independent DEF CON association, RM-Cyber relationship, allocation, and credential boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- public repository description and Player Guide
- Status
- pre-event source project documented; organization relationship and handoff unverified
- Timeframe
- repository published 2026-08-04 before DEF CON 34
- Source note
- BigDawgDave/The-Shattered-Shard repository description and Player Guide, reviewed 2026-08-05.
Evidence
Related Resources
public badge challenge-player documentation
Primary public source for the badge/battery, local Wi-Fi/browser, data-USB, serial-terminal, labelled-SAO, LED-panel, sequential-quest, and assigned-badge-only interaction surface. It is intentionally linked as a player guide without repeating credentials, endpoints, flags, challenge hints, exploit steps, serial commands, or reset procedures in the catalogue.
Badge: The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
public independent challenge-badge repository
Public GitHub repository whose description calls it the public repository for a DEF CON 34 RM-Cyber challenge badge named The Shattered Shard. The reviewed root exposes a Player Guide only. It establishes a distinct source-backed pre-event challenge-badge project, not RM-Cyber, DEF CON, or organizer authorization; a complete hardware/firmware archive; manufacture; allocation; delivery; or image-reuse rights.
Badge: The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
Source trail
Evidence Sources
GitHub / BigDawgDave · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary public project source whose repository description identifies The Shattered Shard as a DEF CON 34 RM-Cyber challenge badge. It establishes source-publisher framing and a distinct named project, not a verified organization relationship, official DEF CON issuance, badge creator, physical run, allocation, handoff, credential function, or reusable-image permission.
Badge: The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
GitHub / BigDawgDave · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary player-facing source describing an assigned electronic badge, a charged battery, badge-local Wi-Fi/browser use, USB/serial and labelled-SAO challenge context, an LED panel, saved progress, and an explicit instruction to use only the assigned badge and services it advertises. It does not publish a complete hardware design, software source, license, sale/giveaway terms, authorized organizer relationship, or post-event outcome.
Badge: The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)