Albert de Klein

In an act of extreme openness, transparency and gratitude our entry for Apps for Amsterdam has been officially banned from the competition because the app we sent in used the original dataset they provided – the one with the privacy flaw we exposed earlier.
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Today is the closing day for the Apps for Amsterdam competition. After several people made enquiries whether I was going to submit the app, I thought about how I could put the working app online without compromising the privacy of the owners of the scanned vehicles. After all one of the rules for submission of the competition is a working prototype.
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On March 12th 2011 the 3rd Hack de Overheid-event was held at Het Sieraad in Amsterdam. Together with my friend Lennart, I attended the event at which we built the Dude! Where is My Car?-app. With this web app you can lookup if, when and where a car passed one of the Automatic License Plate Recognition camera in the city of Amsterdam in first two weeks of February of this year. All because of a plain MD5-hash in the open data set that was provided…
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