Sure, but I can understand why they'd want to do this. If they could have pulled it off (and honestly it sounds like they did; the badges ended up in the hands

Sure, but I can understand why they'd want to do this. If they could have pulled it off (and honestly it sounds like they did; the badges ended up in the hands of conference attendees in working order), it would have been amazing publicity. Arguably it still is amazing publicity, at least for the people who will end up believing Entropic's version of events. Maybe not a good look when it comes to people who side with DEFCON on this.