Edwin van Andel
Edwin van Andel started hacking at the age of 13. Although he is now CTO of hacker company Zerocopter, his relationship with the hacker community is still the main driving force in his life. His dream to bring the brilliant minds of all hackers he knows together in one room and to hack everything that is brought in is something that he is getting closer to. In addition, together with the “Guild of Grumpy Old Hackers”, he is actively guiding and leading young hackers in the right direction in order to create his ultimate goal - a safe society through a safer internet.
Sessions
The Dutch police has been trying to collaborate with ‘private partners’, including the Dutch hacker community in the Netherlands, for years now (the great Public Private Partnership or PPP), with mild success. So when they asked us what they could organise to get to know us, we replied with “invite us to hack police shit and eat pizza’s”. We thought we would never hear of them again. Surprise surprise, they eventually invited us in.
So we at Zerocopter created a team consisting of brilliant hard- and software hackers from the Dutch hacking community and went to the Amsterdam police station to try and hack some of their obsolete bodycams. Did we succeed? Come and find out and prepare to laugh your ass off!