The Many Badges of DEF CON 25

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

If you follow DEF CON news at all, you’ll know that there’s been some kind of issue with the badges. But don’t worry, DEF CON will have badges, but so will the community!

What do I mean by this? Well, badge hacking has long been a DEF CON tradition, but in the past few years, we’ve seen more and more unofficial badges appearing at DEF CON. This year seems to be a massive upswing, and while I’m sure some of that was in progress before the badge announcement, ~~I believe at least some of it is the community response to the DEF CON badge issue~~. (Edit: All of the listed badges were apparently in the works before the DEF CON announcement. Thanks to @wbm312 for setting me straight.)

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The Many Badges of DEF CON 25