Euro-police hacking

This year our theme is investigation - from crime scene to case file. You'll get a chance to work alongside serving police officers, detectives and scene of crime investigators to create something new. We'll be in our London Blackfriars venue again, with thanks to Computacenter , our hosts for this year and last. Policing professional tickets are available! Once you have your ticket, please visit our discord channel hack-the-police-4 to interact with our participants.

If you'd like to share an idea for an innovation in policing, you can add it to the ideas database. We'll make sure you're fully credited if you wish to be , and put you in contact with any teams that choose to work on the idea or anything similar if you agree to that. Police Rewired are a group for volunteer professionals, building tools in public safety and policing. We fight crime with code. Our community is open to developers, designers, data scientists, students, academics, criminologists, crime scientists, serving police officers, and creative problem solvers!

We are all volunteers, our projects are open source, and we build in the open. To find out more join our community , or visit policerewired. If you have questions you can reach us:. Read more about the history and outcomes from Hack the Police here:. Q: Is there a code of conduct? A: Yes.

We ask that you read our code of conduct - it's how we create a safe environment for all our participants. Please note that we cannot accommodate participants below the age of If you are under the age of 18, please read our safety policies and fill out a safeguarding form after you have applied for a ticket.

Q: Will food be provided? Make sure to let us know if you have any allergies or dietary needs as you sign up. Q: What size teams can participate? A: You may form a team of any size or hack as an individual. Teams of size 1 to 4 people are eligible for a prize. Q: Can I apply on behalf of a friend? A: Each person coming must apply for their own ticket. At the hack, you can work in teams of 1 to 4 with whoever you like to be eligible for a prize in one of the categories. Q: Can we stay over?

A: If you are over 18 years old, you can stay over at our London Blackfriars venue. Bring a sleeping bag and pillow if you're not planning to hack all night! Q: What should I bring? A: You'll need a laptop and a charger. If you're staying over, also bring a wash bag, change of clothes, sleeping bag, pillow. There's a shower at our London Blackfriars venue so bring a towel, too. Q: Who supports Hack the Police?

A: Hack the Police is the Police Rewired annual hackathon. We run it in partnership with our sponsors, and with the support police forces and policing bodies. Find out more about our partners below Q: I have a brilliant idea. Can I share it with teams at the event?

A: Yes, you can add it to our ideas database. Q: Will there be prizes? A: We love prizes! They will be fun and policing themed. Q: What are the prize categories?

A: TBC! We will announce the prize categories closer to the date of the event. Q: Do Hack the Police projects have an impact? A: Wow, what a question for an FAQ! National Security Agency and lawful intrusions conducted by the police, arguing that unlike intelligence services, police forces operate in a much more transparent manner and have better oversight.

Bart Jacobs, a professor of computer security at Radboud University Nijmegen and member of the Dutch National Cybersecurity Council, told the panel he is concerned about the privacy implications of the Dutch legislative proposal, but more fundamentally about how it will affect the integrity of the legal process. Police should follow technological advances, but not everything that is technologically possible should be done by a technologically advanced society, he said.

Every lawyer defending a suspect accused of a crime based on evidence obtained through such lawful computer intrusion could argue that the evidence was planted there, and it would be difficult for the police to defend themselves against such accusations, he said.

When police are doing roadside checks for speeding cars, those are passive measurements, but when they intrude into a computer, they can do whatever they want, Jacobs said. Jacobs also had doubts that the Dutch law would only be used for serious cases, especially since the proposal does not restrict the use of such powers to cybercrime investigations. When a law allowing phone tapping was first introduced and debated in the Dutch parliament, the government argued it would hardly ever be used, but today the Netherlands is one of the most active phone tappers in the world, he said.

When asked about the implications of Dutch police officers breaking the laws of foreign countries by hacking into computers located there, Zinn said the Dutch proposal limits the lawful intrusion powers to computers located in the Netherlands and computers whose locations cannot be determined. Oerting was more supportive of the idea of cross-border computer intrusion conducted by law enforcement agencies, saying there are already similar agreements in the physical world.

The Schengen Area agreement, an agreement among 25 European countries that abolishes passport and immigration control at their common borders, allows police officers from one country to follow suspects into another country while in hot pursuit, he said. However, there are also questions about the implications of this law when considering that cybercriminals often use compromised computers to launch attacks.