Skip to content

Welcome and Making of the DEF CON Badge

The Dark TangentLosT

The Dark Tangent and LosT details the Dark Tangent and Ryan Clarke "LosT" Welcome to DEF CON and discuss the making of the DEF CON 22 Badge.

Summary

Architecture and Background

The Dark Tangent and Ryan Clarke "LosT" Welcome to DEF CON and discuss the making of the DEF CON 22 Badge. The Dark Tangent, LosT contextualize these mechanics within the broader community landscape.

Vulnerability Analysis

The analysis investigates key threat vectors and design shortcomings related to defcon-badge, hardware-hacking, pcb-design, embedded-systems.

Exploitation and Demonstrations

The Dark Tangent and Ryan Clarke "LosT" Welcome to DEF CON and discuss the making of the DEF CON 22 Badge.

Remediation and Defensive Strategies

Defenders and researchers are provided actionable defensive mitigations, monitoring telemetry, and configuration safeguards to minimize systemic risk.

Related talks

Main Stage·30 min

  • DEF CON
  • Community
  • Date: Aug 2013
  • Location: Las Vegas

LosT

LosT details dEF CON 21 - LosT - Welcome and Making of the Badges LosT welcomes everyone to the conference and discusses the making of the DEF CON Badges.

defcon-badgehardware-hackingpcb-design+1

Main Stage·28 min

  • DEF CON
  • Hardware
  • Date: Aug 2021
  • Location: Las Vegas

Michael Whiteley · Katie Whiteley

Badge designers Michael and Katie Whiteley share the behind-the-scenes engineering of the DEF CON 29 badge, overcoming pandemic supply chain crises.

defcon-badgehardwarehardware+2