I got to learn about the Arduino IDE as I flashed the base firmware on the Kickstarter pledged badge packages. The project I was involved with was Defcon Drone badge (Hi Bl1n7!) and our team frantically flashed badge operating systems and assembled kits into the late hours of the night. How do you combat counterfeit badges when the vast majority of your attendees know about plastic card printers, have a passing familiarity with photo editing software, and perhaps a flexible moral code?Ī selection of the SAO mini badges acquired through trade, beverage exchange, or monetary transactions.Īll of these are but a small sampling of what was available. Oh the swagiest of swag! Epic t-shirts, cool and weird stickers, army backpacks with a bajillion pockets, personalized hotel cards, challenge coins, and the crown jewel of them all… The coveted unofficial electronic badges.ĭefcon has the best badges-in part out of necessity, I theorize. The list goes on and on in a cornucopia of coolness.Īnd let’s not forget the swag. There’s the car hacking village, drone hacking, the social engineering events. Warranties are gleefully broken and tamper mechanisms are ignored or defeated in an undetectable manner. Soldering irons abound, and disassembling is encouraged.
Then there are various hardware hacking villages, where routers, Wi-Fi repeaters, or anything containing a small computer is picked apart. Villages, such as the LockPick village, exist where volunteers demonstrate just how illusionary the protection a physical lock provides. And let’s not forget HallCon, where you strike up a conversation with random strangers and never, not once, have them roll their eyes when you start talking about security. There’s even a LineCon, consisting of the impromptu discussions that take place while waiting to register or waiting to get into a room to see a presentation.
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