VULNCON 2025
Official event-context source for the June 14-15, 2025 schedule, Bengaluru conference, workshop/village track, and listing of Solder & Spark Badge Village in the day-one programme.
Evidence index
Primary docs, public wikis, repositories, talks, press writeups, and first-hand notes used to support badge pages.
Official event-context source for the June 14-15, 2025 schedule, Bengaluru conference, workshop/village track, and listing of Solder & Spark Badge Village in the day-one programme.
Official venue source for National Science Seminar Complex, IISc, Bengaluru 560004, India.
Attendee-report source for the integrated-circuit electronic badge, four-line LED screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, pre-installed clues, badge connection for clue exchange, and puzzle/cipher/game/hack challenge framing.
Primary badge-team writeup proving the official HackConRD 2024 badge, first-badge badgelife framing, lanyard use, ATTiny85 hardware, conference firmware with challenges/hidden features, serial programming, aRGB LEDs, buzzer, and manufacturing-file context.
Source for the 2016 Pimp My Badge reuse workshop and explicit no-new-badge context.
Source for the companion wearable Arduino pendant workshop and badge-combination note.
Source repository preserving examples, binaries, documentation, and challenge tooling.
Primary event source for the WAHCKon 2013 public site and ticket-sale context.
Primary badge evidence: the standard ticket description explicitly included a WAHCKon 2013 badge.
Primary public mailing-list evidence that a conflict existed.
Primary public mailing-list evidence and caution about incomplete public facts.
Primary badge warnings, LoRa details, repair notes, and app install information.
Community-maintained issue and repair record.
Detailed fire-hazard advisory and response links.
Primary LoRa antenna advisory covering irreversible transmitter damage risk without a proper antenna, SWR thresholds, VNA measurement, and tuning notes.
Public attendee feedback on late distribution, queues, limited hacking, and documentation.
Primary public team page for Team:Badge member names and development-group structure.
Primary source for simple printed HIP97 badge memories and repeat photo IDs.
Source for the early-Dutch-camp badge-scope caveat and the transition toward modern electronic badges.
Source for the early-Dutch-camp badge-scope caveat and the transition toward modern electronic badges.
Source for the early-Dutch-camp badge-scope caveat and the transition toward modern electronic badges.
Source for the early-Dutch-camp badge-scope caveat and the transition toward modern electronic badges.
Source for the early-Dutch-camp badge-scope caveat and the transition toward modern electronic badges.
Source for the early-Dutch-camp badge-scope caveat and the transition toward modern electronic badges.
Primary source for personalized badge production, digital photography constraints, and field printing context.
Contemporary source for Ryan Clarke design context, embedded game, crypto/puzzle goals, badge-type roles, IR interactions, programming-language support, VGA expansion, and secret-society lore.
Contemporary source for PCB inner-layer metal clues, role badge types, over-forty design variations, poker-card/famous-hacker motifs, Uber watch construction, and Ryan Clarke quotes.
Official event archive trail for the 0x00 edition and talk/workshop context; the current live hostname was intermittently unreachable from the local resolver during this pass.
Linked vendor reference named by the attendee writeup for the badge board foundation; not used to infer a specific WemOS module beyond the source text.
Public-domain source image for Prosavage2600's original photograph of a DEF CON 13 badge; used for image provenance and identity-artifact evidence.
CC BY-SA 4.0 source image for Tony Webster's original photograph of a DEF CON 22 badge; used only for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.
CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary photo source by Sephiroth storm showing multiple DEF CON badges, including the DEF CON 20 Human badge; used for image provenance, not hardware specification.
CC0 source image for Hanno Böck's original photograph of the DEF CON 24 press badge front side; used only for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.
Image source for the CC BY-SA 4.0 original photo by Samsonswiki, described on Commons as DEF CON 18.
Image-provenance source for the original Mitch Altman conference photo, badge identification, CC BY-SA 2.0 license, Flickr source, and FlickreviewR confirmation.
Public-domain image source for the physical badge issued at the tenth HOPE conference, with source, author, and CC0 license metadata.
CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary photo source by Sephiroth storm showing a visible DEF CON I Human badge/name-tag artifact; used for image provenance and artifact visibility, not as a hardware-spec source.
CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary source image by Sephiroth storm showing the DEF CON 26 lanyard and official badge among other hacker-conference badges; used for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.
CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary photo source by Sephiroth storm showing a visible BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact; used for image provenance and artifact visibility, not component-level hardware specification.
CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary source image by Sephiroth storm showing the visible AND!XOR DC26 badge among multiple hacker-conference badges; used for image provenance and artifact visibility, not component-level hardware specification.
Official event source for the October 8-10, 2025 Deadwood Mountain Grand conference, venue address, event description, and registration context.
Primary official badge source for the Antisyphon-sponsored electronic badge, badge CTF framing, Meta CTF link, observation-or-firmware solve paths, and badge-team contacts Ray Feltch, David Fletcher, and Rick Wisser.
Secondary pre-event source for SD-card use, prototype caveats, Joe Grand and Jeff Moss context, and public badge positioning.
Primary event context for ZeTeCo 2017 and its archived camp documentation.
Primary event source for the April 4-5, 2024 closed vulnerability-research conference, Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul venue, registration section, and sold-out state.
Primary event source for the April 10-11, 2025 closed vulnerability-research conference at Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul.
Primary event source for the April 2-3, 2026 closed vulnerability-research conference at Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul.
Primary field source for challenge behavior, HID/serial lore, clue flow, prize context, Weckzen attribution, and Zkylark Electronics thanks.
Site index documenting the move away from Blogspot and linking the Hacktivity 2018 badge guide in the current archive.
Project-owner retrospective corroborating 2019 badge concept, programming role, power switch, mode button, and CTF blink challenges.