Hacker Con Badges

Series

Black Hat USA

United States Black Hat cybersecurity-conference badge lineage, beginning with the source-backed 2026 Black Hat badge variant used to verify a pre-purchased DEF CON ticket. Official pages establish a printed DEF CON symbol and hole-punch workflow, but do not identify the badge's material, technology, wider access-control behavior, or final handoff.

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Events

Black Hat USA 2026 2026 · United States · 1 badge(s)

Lineage Notes

United States Black Hat cybersecurity-conference badge lineage, beginning with the source-backed 2026 Black Hat badge variant used to verify a pre-purchased DEF CON ticket. Official pages establish a printed DEF CON symbol and hole-punch workflow, but do not identify the badge's material, technology, wider access-control behavior, or final handoff.

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Black Hat USA 2026 · 2026

Black Hat USA 2026 Black Hat Badge with DEF CON Symbol

Completed DEF CON ticket-verification conference identity artifact; handoff details remain unverified

Black Hat's official 2026 DEF CON-registration and attendee-resource pages say that a registrant who bought a DEF CON ticket through an eligible Black Hat pass receives a DEF CON symbol printed on their Black Hat badge. The person presents that marked badge during the August 6 pickup workflow, where staff hole-punch it as proof of pickup, but the sources do not identify the badge's material, artwork, barcode/QR/RFID/NFC/electronic form, broader access behavior, or completed handoff.