ASCII Badge

intro hardware forensics FCSC 2026 solved on

Description

A friend configured their Hackropole badge to encode a flag on the 8 LEDs. While they are away, you dump the firmware of their badge.

Can you recover the flag from the dump ?

Note: having the physical badge is not necessary to solve this challenge, the original firmware has not been modified.

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Files

  • badge-dump.img.gz
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Author

erdnaxe

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