Hi everyone!
It was sitting on the shelves for quite a while, but now thanks to the
heroic efforts of Richi235 and Glaxx, we have a new eletronic lock!
Basically, in addition to the hopefully known way to buzz yourself
through the downstairs door, you can now unlock the (upstairs) office
door _exclusively_ with a personalized token that you submit to an HTTPS
endpoint available on the local network. This means you need to carry
some device that can connect to the local network! We're not exposing
the endpoint as onion service, since we don't want people to
accidentally (or deliberately) open the door remotely -- we want to
ensure some kind of physical presence.
We had to exchange the lock, so please, if you have an old physical key,
give it to some Berlin people or bring it to the Tor developers meeting
and pass it directly to me. As of _today_, you will not be able to open
the door with the physical keys.
We reused quite a bit of code from our Augsburg hackerspace, so there is
even an Android app that you can use to unlock the door. [At this point
we don't know if it actually works, as it might rely also on a working
SpaceAPI that returns the door state, which we don't have yet.]
Code: https://gitlab.glaxx.net/glaxx/onionsphinkter/
Android App: https://github.com/openlab-aux/sphincter-remote/releases
The idea is that in addition to your own personalized token, "regulars"
will be able to hand out tokens with expiry date to guests. At the
moment, only I can add tokens to the database. I will now go through the
list of subscribers and only send tokens to people who I believe are
currently using the space at least from time to time. I don't have very
good visibility into who is actually using it, so if there's any people
that I forgot about, please let me know.
There's a lot of cool features we could build on top of this. For
example, we should combine the buzzer and the upstairs lock into one
interface, and add a UPS, but for now that's two separate pieces of
infrastructure. There's a bug tracker to collect ideas and todos for the
space:
https://issues.techcultivation.org/projects/cct-orga/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&…
[Fallback: Juris, Ximin, and probably Tomate will have the 3 physical
keys that exist for the new lock.]
-- Mo
