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title: Free IPv6 VPN for hackerspaces
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2019-11-08 14:23:16 +00:00
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pub_date: 2019-11-08
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author: Nico Schottelius
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twitter_handle: NicoSchottelius
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_discoverable: yes
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abstract:
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From today on ungleich offers free, encrypted IPv6 VPNs for hackerspaces
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body:
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## TL;DR
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If you are a hackerspace and you want to hack/work/have fun with IPv6,
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send an email to **ipv6hackerspace -at- ungleich.ch** with your
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[public wireguard
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key](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure/wiki/The_ungleich_VPN_infrastructure#Sample-clustomer-client-configuration)
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plus a short description of your hackerspace and get an IPv6 VPN for free.
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## The world belongs to geeks...
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"...because nobody else wants it." was a slogan I've once read on a
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mug. True or not, fact is that we geeks and hackers are the ones
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who live in the Internet, create many of its backbone technologies and
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always fight for a better version of it (with varying degree of
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success...).
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## How the Internet was supposed to be
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The Internet was built to foster communication, research and exchange
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of ideas. With the tranformation to a commercial driven network and
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the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses we changed the way how we use the
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Internet: instead of exchanging data directly with each other, we use
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intermediate cloud services. Instead of being able to publish
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information on any computer, we are hidden by multiple levels of NAT.
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We have moved far away from the original idea of the Internet, it's
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time to take back control.
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## Using IPv6 to change the game, now
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With IPv6 we geeks are back in the game, can launch services as we
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like, be reachable under the same IPv6 address world wide, can even
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carry around our networks and offer them as a service when we visit
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other places.
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The values of [team ungleich](https://ungleich.ch) are pretty much
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aligned with the hacking community (in fact, we run a [Hacking
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Hotel](https://hack.digitalglarus.ch/hacking-and-living-in-hotel-diesbach.html)
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in [Digital Glarus](https://digitalglarus.ch/)). Our job at ungleich
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is to **enable people to do stuff**, so we decided it is time to
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enable (other) hackerspaces to join the movement.
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2019-11-08 14:30:36 +00:00
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## Why hackerspaces?
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If you read hacking as in "creative use of technology", it is clear
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that creativity should not be limited. To explore new ways of using
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the Internet (maybe even [without
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facebook?](https://code.ungleich.ch/nico/rif)), you need to be able to
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experiment, to explore, to challenge. We love this groove and
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want to support this, that's why we support hackerspaces.
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2019-11-08 14:38:13 +00:00
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## Why a (wireguard based) VPN?
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We are aware that there are other tunnel providers and technologies out
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there and that is a good thing. The reasons why we opted for a
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[Wireguard VPN based solution](https://ipv6vpn.ch) are following:
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* wireguard: it's very easy and slim and does not require IPv4 inside
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the tunnel ([which OpenVPN still
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does](https://ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2019/09/10/openvpn-vs-wireguard/))
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* VPN: work with dynamic IPs, works behind CGNAT
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(feel free to challenge this decision in a discussion on IPv6.chat)
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2019-11-08 14:23:16 +00:00
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## Getting IPv6 for a hackerspace
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To get IPv6 for your hackerspace, simple write an email to
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ipv6hackerspace -at- ungleich.ch with a short description of your
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hackerspace and your public [wireguard](https://www.wireguard.com/)
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key.
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You can find more information on how to configure wireguard and how to
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create the public key in the [ungleich redmine
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wiki](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure/wiki/The_ungleich_VPN_infrastructure#Sample-clustomer-client-configuration).
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## IPv6 chat
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If you want to stay in touch with us and talk about IPv6 **IRC alike**,
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you can join us on the [IPv6 chat](https://IPv6.chat).
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