We want to give badges to hackers doing cool things. Sponsors came up big for us this year but we need your help to close the gap. Support the project as a philanthropist and we will set aside a badge just for you. As a philanthropist you’re helping us manufacture additional badges, upgrade and transport 5n4ck3y for shenanigans at DEF CON, and many sleepless nights for us... to do what we love doing, giving these away for free.
There are several things you should understand before shutting up and giving us your money.
- There will be BENDER hacking challenges, however they wont be presented on our CTFd hosted server until Friday 8/8/25 at 10am Vegas Standard Time (this is due to badges being part of a challenge in the Contests & Events area of DEF CON). Our GitHub (https://github.com/andnxor/) for the DC33 badge will contain activation instructions posted the day the contest starts.
- We will ship it by early August.
- No pickups in Vegas.
- No International Shipping this year - unfortunate, but we had too many badges bounce back to the US last year.
- If you don't like this, that's okay, you can chance it at the con. The badges will be given away for various hacking challenges and some for shenanigans.
Special thanks to this year's sponsors: Urbane Security, CTFd, & YOU for making it possible to give away over 70% of our badges and bring the 5n4ck3y contest back another year!