[Noisebridge-discuss] DefCon & HackTheBadge badges

[Martin Bogomolni]

It comes down to people loving things that go blink, beep, and whirl.
 They haven't really been trackable to date even .. last years had a
nice IR transmit/receive pair though (TV-B-GON)  You can find the
history of the DC14, DC15, and DC16 badges on Joe Grand's website
(Kingpin):

http://www.grandideastudio.com/consumer/


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Rodney
Thayer<redshuttlegunner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Martin Bogomolni wrote:
>> Since selling things @DefCON without being a licensed vendor is
>> _severely frowned upon_, I'd like to give NB'ers who are headed to
>> DC17 a chance to 'pre-reserve' a HackTheBadge board.  For that matter,
>> even if you're not going to DC17 and just want a cool
>> mostly-Arduino-compatible board with lots of good hackable things
>> onboard to play with.
>
> I find it curious that allegedly security-oriented folks who at least
> sometimes allegedly care about issues like privacy and trackability
> would suddenly decide it's a cool thing to be trackable at a hacker
> convention.  I think active electronics in badges at any conference
> anywhere is intrusive and unreasonable.
>
> But I guess it's a cute little piece of hardware and that's got
> some entertainment value, agreed.
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