Announcements, calls, and intercepts from SAINTCON.https://saintcon.org/en-ushttps://saintcon.org/comms/livestream-day-3/https://saintcon.org/comms/livestream-day-3/Thursday's livestream is up on the SAINTCON YouTube channel. It opens with Mike Spicer's keynote and runs through the day's talks. The player is on the Keynotes page next to Days 1 and 2.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/livestream-day-2/https://saintcon.org/comms/livestream-day-2/Wednesday's livestream is up on the SAINTCON YouTube channel. It opens with Perri Adams's keynote and runs through the day's talks. The player is on the Keynotes page next to Day 1.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/livestream-day-1/https://saintcon.org/comms/livestream-day-1/Tuesday's livestream is up on the SAINTCON YouTube channel: opening ceremonies, Bruce Potter's keynote, and the day's talks.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/first-contact/https://saintcon.org/comms/first-contact/The SAINTnet watch caught a file transfer on an unregistered band. It was not addressed to us. After two nights of analysis, the signals desk found a working translator inside: it turns text into chords of five notes and turns those chords back into text. It is open to the whole crew. Type a message, play it, listen with your microphone, and work out how it is built. The watch expects encrypted messages in this language to turn up around the convention center during conference week.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/floor-maps/https://saintcon.org/comms/floor-maps/The maps page has a map for each floor of the Utah Valley Convention Center. Floor 1 shows the Expo Hall: communities, contests, activities, sponsor booths, registration, and the SAINTCON Store. Floors 2 and 3 show the ballrooms, Chillout, Beat the Breach, and the community classroom. Every floor marks restrooms, elevators, stairs, AEDs, drinking fountains, and cold drinks.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:30:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/minibadge-assembly-guide/https://saintcon.org/comms/minibadge-assembly-guide/The SAINTCON 2026 MiniBadge Assembly Guide is up. It covers the official, sponsor, and personal minibadges known for this year, with difficulty, rarity, parts, and step-by-step assembly for each badge, plus an LED orientation reference and a hand-soldering walkthrough. It is a 285-page PDF.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/scoreboards-live/https://saintcon.org/comms/scoreboards-live/The scoreboard page collects standings for SAINTCON 26 contests and challenges in one place, refreshed every minute, with a link to each contest's own board where it has one. Boards fill in as each contest posts scores. The same standings rotate on the hall displays during the conference.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/octopus-game-registration-open/https://saintcon.org/comms/octopus-game-registration-open/We picked up a recruitment notice on an open channel. It is signed by the crew running the Octopus Game and addressed to anyone at SAINTCON who wants to play. The Octopus Game is taking new players, and recruits sign up on the game dashboard. Guards begin in-person check-in at the booth on Tuesday at 10:30 AM.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-008/https://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-008/We caught a construction test from Horizon Station: two cranes assembling an observatory inside a dome. The work order is still marked PENDING REVIEW and calls for a public vote on the buildings. Engineering asks that future telescope requests include measurements.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/store-catalogue/https://saintcon.org/comms/store-catalogue/The store page lists everything the SAINTCON store will carry this year, with prices and current stock: shirts, badges, lock tools, and more. Nothing is sold online. Buy in person at the store, in the cafe on the first floor of the convention center, with card or cash. Star items to build a list of what you want before you go.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-007/https://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-007/No transmissions came from the fab bay channel after the station plans. At 12:05 AM we received a short burst. It is the first intercept with motion, and it has audio. Turn your sound on. Whatever they are building is made to connect to something.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:05:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/four-winds-ping/https://saintcon.org/comms/four-winds-ping/A new activity just came in on long-range sensors: Four Winds, a set of starship bridge simulators. Someone left a personal log open at the Boreas helm station. Read it before you take a seat on the bridge.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:22:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/a-maze-ing-phase-2-live/https://saintcon.org/comms/a-maze-ing-phase-2-live/Phase 2 went live at 4:00 PM MDT. One runner, one run, no disconnects, inside a 48 hour window that opens for runners at 5:00 PM Tuesday and closes at 4:59 PM Thursday. Register in #pre-con-chall-chat on Discord for a one-time token, then SSH to ezama.saintcon.org and use the token as your handle. The grand prize is a ticket to SAINTCON; the top 50 solvers get the Jupigotchi MiniBadge.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/routine-reminder/https://saintcon.org/comms/routine-reminder/We would like to remind everyone that there is no cow level.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-006/https://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-006/A full engineering sheet came off the StarReach channel, not a photograph this time. Horizon Station: three habitation rings on arms off a central hub, 482.6 metres tip to tip, initial crew of 240 and marked expandable. Fusion reactor as primary power, four docking ports, four cargo bays. The delivery schedule runs from Q3 2026 into 2027 and the final module configuration is stamped pending review.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/a-maze-ing-challenge-open/https://saintcon.org/comms/a-maze-ing-challenge-open/The pre-con challenge is open. It is a maze reached over SSH at amaze.saintcon.org, navigated by cardinal directions plus up, and built so that solving it by hand is not realistic. Build an AI runner, optimize it, then solve the maze. Your Discord handle has to be in the runner to claim a win, and attacking the infrastructure is one strike and out.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/hackers-challenge-page-live/https://saintcon.org/comms/hackers-challenge-page-live/Full details for this year's format are posted. An online qualifier runs Tuesday noon to Friday 6:00 AM on a dynamically scored Jeopardy board, and the top four plus the top minimal-AI player advance to the in-person final on Friday morning. Declare minimal-AI or maxi-AI at registration; three scoreboards track both. The winner takes the Black Badge.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/talks-and-speakers-posted/https://saintcon.org/comms/talks-and-speakers-posted/Forty-nine accepted talks are posted, grouped by category: Fundamentals, Blue-Team, Red-Team, Policy/Procedures, How-To Demonstration and Product/Service Promotion. Every speaker has a page with their bio and what they are presenting. Days, times and rooms are not assigned yet.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/minibadge-bingo-intel/https://saintcon.org/comms/minibadge-bingo-intel/A bingo game is rumored to be in the works. A few required badges may not be on the official manifest. Stay tuned for information about the timing of the workshops.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/keynotes-announced/https://saintcon.org/comms/keynotes-announced/Three keynotes this year, one on each main conference morning: Bruce Potter on Tuesday, Perri Adams on Wednesday, and Mike Spicer on Thursday. Bios for all three are on the keynotes page.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/starreach-bulletin-12/https://saintcon.org/comms/starreach-bulletin-12/A recruitment bulletin off the StarReach channel calls for cargo pilots to haul materials from the outer settlements back to the station. Captains are advised to see to fuel, hull, and crew before departure, and warned that frontier markets do not wait.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/pre-con-challenge-rumor/https://saintcon.org/comms/pre-con-challenge-rumor/Chatter across the channels says a pre-con challenge is coming, something to play before anyone sets foot in Provo. Mission Control has not confirmed it, and there are no rules, no scoreboard, and no start date yet. Treat it as a rumor until it is not. Watch this feed.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-004/https://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-004/A long transmission off the fab bay channel. Twelve images came through. The rest of the packet did not decode.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/sponsors-page-live/https://saintcon.org/comms/sponsors-page-live/The SAINTCON 26 sponsor lineup is up. Thirty-three organizations are sponsoring this year, and they fund the venue, the badges, the food, and the communities. Most of them staff booths in the sponsor area all week.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-003/https://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-003/A third transmission off the badge fabrication bay channel, pulled from a failing monitor: a badge proof of wings and a rocket climbing past a ringed planet and stars. The carrier was weak and nearly half the packet was lost, but the recovered scan is posted.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/scholarships-closed/https://saintcon.org/comms/scholarships-closed/Individual scholarship applications for SAINTCON 26 are now closed. With the conference sold out, K-12 student group signups and scholarships have both wrapped for this year.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/waitlist-and-family-night/https://saintcon.org/comms/waitlist-and-family-night/The conference is sold out, but two things are still open. Join the standby waitlist to grab a seat if one frees up, and sign the family up for Family Night on Thursday, October 29, a night of soldering, gaming, and hands-on hacking for kids.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/registration-sold-out/https://saintcon.org/comms/registration-sold-out/SAINTCON 26 is sold out. Every ticket was claimed on opening day, July 15. If a standby slot opens up we run a waitlist, so keep an eye on comms. Scholarships and K-12 student group signups are already closed.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/registration-opens-today/https://saintcon.org/comms/registration-opens-today/SAINTCON 26 registration opens today, July 15, at 1:00 PM Mountain (MDT). Tickets sell out fast, often within one to two hours, so line up your approvals and be ready to reserve the moment the gate opens.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/student-groups-closed/https://saintcon.org/comms/student-groups-closed/Student Group signups for SAINTCON 26 are now closed. Individual scholarships and standard registration are still available.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/trainings-announced/https://saintcon.org/comms/trainings-announced/The 2026 SAINTCON training catalog is live: seven hands-on classes spanning SOAR, incident response, satellite hacking, pentesting, threat hunting, CTI, and privacy. Add a class to your order during registration.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/hyatt-place-group-rate/https://saintcon.org/comms/hyatt-place-group-rate/SAINTCON 26 now has a discounted room rate at the Hyatt Place Provo, a few minutes walk from the venue. Book with our group link or enter corporate ID G-SCA1 when reserving.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-002/https://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-002/Another transmission off the badge fabrication bay channel: a single component photographed close, dead center of the board, sent without comment.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/community-pages-live/https://saintcon.org/comms/community-pages-live/Every SAINTCON 26 community now has its own page: what they are running, how to take part, and who to find on the floor. From Lock Pick to Ham Radio to the AI Community, browse the full lineup from the communities hub.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:30:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-001-decoded/https://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-001-decoded/Cryptanalysis on the document attached to Intercept 001 finally cleared. The recovered file is STARREACH Technical Bulletin 7. Open the intercept to read it.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:30:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/boarding-details/https://saintcon.org/comms/boarding-details/Registration pricing for SAINTCON 26 is up, along with details on individual scholarships and the K-12 student group program. Review it now so you are ready when reservations open July 15.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:00:00 GMTSystemhttps://saintcon.org/comms/registration-open/https://saintcon.org/comms/registration-open/Reservations open July 15 at 13:00 MDT. Tickets are expected to sell out within one to two hours, so line up approvals and be ready to reserve.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:00:00 GMTDispatchhttps://saintcon.org/comms/volunteers-closed/https://saintcon.org/comms/volunteers-closed/Volunteer sign-ups closed for 2026. Thanks to everyone stepping up to crew the conference.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMTCallhttps://saintcon.org/comms/trainings-closed/https://saintcon.org/comms/trainings-closed/Training submissions closed for 2026.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMTCallhttps://saintcon.org/comms/papers-r1-closed/https://saintcon.org/comms/papers-r1-closed/Round 1 of the Call for Papers closed. Watch for any later rounds.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:00:00 GMTCallhttps://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-001/https://saintcon.org/comms/intercept-001/An unauthorized transmission out of the badge fabrication bay detected.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMTIntercepthttps://saintcon.org/comms/sponsors-full/https://saintcon.org/comms/sponsors-full/Sponsorships sold out for 2026 and the call closed.Wed, 20 May 2026 18:00:00 GMTCallhttps://saintcon.org/comms/calls-open/https://saintcon.org/comms/calls-open/Calls for Papers, Trainings, Volunteers, and Sponsors opened for 2026.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:00:00 GMTCallhttps://saintcon.org/comms/con-confirmed/https://saintcon.org/comms/con-confirmed/Dates and spaceport locked in: October 27 to 30, 2026, at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo.Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMTDispatch