Haven’t booked yet? Head over to the registration page to get your tickets now!

Do you have extensive knowledge of defeats for tamper-evident devices? Or maybe you’ve heard about the tamper contests and would like to try your hand at it? We have just the challenge for you: King of the Seal! Come one, come all – play against your friends!

Here’s how it works:

1. To enter, you must open and close (unseal/reseal) a tamper evident device without visible, tactile, or olfactory evidence that you did so.
2. Turn in your entry to the friendly Tamper Village staff. We will rate your attempt.
3. If you’re better than the current best for that category, your entry will become the new king of the hill! The tampered seal will be placed atop a pedestal and displayed for all to see.
4. Until someone comes and does a better job, you hack. Try again. Do better!

Additional Rules:
* Max team size: 1
* Tamper Evident Staff evaluations are swift and brutal.

There will be multiple seals available for your purview including mechanical and adhesive seals. Old favorites and new challenges will be present for you to play with. The LayerOne Tamper-Evident Contest runs from 10:00 Saturday to 14:00 Sunday!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Today is the LAST DAY to get Early Bird discounts for registration! The hotel room discount is also end soon, so book now if you haven’t!

• Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
• Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Back for 2025! The Intercept is a hardware Capture the Flag (CTF) event focused on testing your skills in hardware hacking, reverse engineering, networking, programming, anti-tamper technologies, and more!

DerpyCorp presents the latest in their line of excellent, highly secure products: the bagHODLr Crypto Wallet! The bagHODLr is the latest in cutting edge technology to securely store your crypto secrets. Don’t get taken in by cyber thieves, protect your secrets with the bagHODLr TODAY!

This year’s contest includes challenges related to reverse engineering, hardware hacking, and hardware fault injection attacks. Normally we would let you flounder in a sea of your own despair, clutching at 10 point Discord flags, but this year we recommend bringing the following equipment:

• Probes and jumpers
• Fault Injection tools
• Oscilloscope
• Logic Analyzer
• Power supply

Contest starts at 10:00 AM on Saturday in the Hardware Hacking Village. LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CONTEST!

If you are looking for a team to join or friends to make a new team, you can find others interested in our #theintercept channel on our Discord server.

Don’t forget, time is running out to save on registration for the conference! Early bird pricing and hotel room discounts ending in ONE WEEK. Don’t wait, book now!

• Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
• Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Time is running out to save on registration for the conference! Early bird pricing and hotel room discounts ending in ONE WEEK. Don’t wait, book now!

• Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
• Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

We’ve also just posted the 2025 speaker lineup and conference schedule, check them out!

b0t – We’ll Do It Live: Experiments in Self-Modifying Code
cesi0 – Revenge of the Sol Stealers
Daryll Strauss – Covert Regional Communication with Meshtastic
Jack Baker – WINE for Video Game Hackers
Joe Rozner – Introduction to Fault Injection
Josh “savant” Brashars – Reverse Engineering Toys into Robots
m0zy – Microarchitectural Side Channel Attacks
machinist – Boo Boo Runs Wild: Guerilla Open-Source Manufacturing
Bronwen “Corvus” Aker – Keeping Things Local – Making Your Own Private LLM
Sam Bowne – Securing AI Systems
Vincent Benzoni – Quantum Conundrums: Conquering Quomputing Challenges
wasabi – Amped up for (Learning) Radio

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

The LayerOne Demo Party is back again for another year of awesome demos! Demos are a combination of programming challenge, artwork, and music. You’re given specific hardware with any number of restrictions – code size, available memory, processor speed. Your goal is to output audio and video that pushes the limits of what is considered possible with such limited hardware.

2025 Demo Party Categories

• LayerOne Demo Board: Create a fantastic audio/video experience using a LayerOne Demo Board!
• ANSI: Create an awesome 80×23 ANSI art image using the standard 16 colors! (Please use this template!)
• Wildcard: Anything goes! Props given for creative use of hardware or software!

Enter your Demo or ANSI art now! Submit by emailing datagram@layerone.org with [DEMO 2025] in your email title! Please include your .hex file for Demo Boards and you .ans file for ANSI!

Time is running out to save on registration for the conference! Early bird pricing and hotel room discounts ending in about 2 weeks. Don’t wait, book now!
Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff