1. Information Ownership
Create a Private Cyberspace for your information assets instantly. Become an information OWNER instead of USER, gain Insights, build Values, earn Incomes and make Impacts that are NOT possible on any Cloud Platforms.
1.1. Why Private Cyberspace ?
Why Private Cyberspace ?
From Information User to Owner
Information is your most important asset – knowing or disclosing just ONE extra piece of data could change your life. Yet currently most of your data is stored remotely on Cloud Platforms, controlled and processed by parties that have DIFFERENT interests and aspirations to you.
You interact through their interfaces and you play by their rules, basically you have lost control – your most important asset is NO longer yours.
Private Cyberspace gives you an exclusive space to store and add value to your data, transforming you from an information user of cloud platform assets to an information owner with your own assets.
The benefits of owning your information space are no less than
- owning your home (instead of staying in a hotel room)
- driving your car (instead of waiting for the bus)
ALL aspects of your digital life are improved substantially.
Owner ADVANTAGES |
Private Cyberspace OWNER |
Cloud Platform USER |
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1. Access | you define | platform define |
2. Artificial Intelligence | your model | platform model |
3. Asset | your asset | cloud asset |
4. Attention | controlled interruptions | constant interruptions |
5. Benefits | mostly to you | mostly to platform |
6. Broadband | more return on investment | less return on investment |
7. Collaboration | directly by you | only through platform |
8. Contacts | you know | platform knows |
9. Control | totally exclusive | almost none |
10. Cost | collaborative infrastructure | centralised infrastructure |
11. Customisation | personal wants | platform wants |
12. Death | your beneficiaries | unknown beneficiaries |
13. Encryption | you encrypt | platform encrypts |
14. Evidence | you collect | platform collect |
15. Hardware | cheap devices | expensive devices |
16. Impact | global reach | platform reach |
17. Income | mutual reward | algorithm reward |
18. Independence | your rules | platform rules |
19. Innovation | swappable processes | fixed processes |
20. Insight | processed data | raw data |
21. Interaction | you manage | platform manage |
22. Leadership | easy to lead | easy to follow |
23. Name | your aliases | account name |
24. Payment | your log | platform log |
25. Profit | your compute | your data |
26. Principle | your own | platform directors |
27. Productivity | globally optimised | locally optimised |
28. Redundancy | massive redundancy | limited redundancy |
29. Reputation | you decide | platform decides |
30. Resource | reclaim latent resources | waste precious resources |
31. Reward | value based reward | platform based reward |
32. Rules | mutual agreement | platform dictate |
33. Safety | your boundaries | platform boundaries |
34. Security | trusted interaction | supervised interaction |
35. Skill | mix and match nodes | application programming interfaces |
36. Software | Node Set | App Store |
37. Sovereignty | local laws | overseas laws |
38. Trust | distributed attestation | central attestation |
39. Usability | your interface | platform interface |
40. Value Add | your way | platform's way |
41. Wastage | all data | partial data |
42. Worldview | you control | platform controls |
For more details on the above Private Cyberspace's unique advantages and different types of Cloud Platforms (from grey clouds like Google to black clouds like Bitcoin) please visit the Cloud Fallacy web page.
Most people are already aware of the many problems with cloud platforms e.g.
- cloud platforms know more about users than the users themselves
- cloud platforms controls almost every aspect of their users' lives
- user data are building up cloud platform assets instead of users' own assets
The problem was the lack of practical alternatives to existing cloud platforms. A problem that Private Cyberspace has been designed to solve.
1.2. How does Private Cyberspace work ?
How does Private Cyberspace work ?
Import Compute instead of Export Data
Data is not useful by itself, it needs compute power to process it in order to create value.
Information Asset = Compute + Data
- Currently DATA is given to those with COMPUTE power (Cloud Platforms)
- Private Cyberspace gives COMPUTE power to those with DATA (you)
Private Cyberspace reverses the current data processing flow, instead of having to export your data to cloud platforms for processing, you import compute to process your data yourself ... with just ONE CLICK.
You are not longer a PASSIVE user building up CLOUD platform assets, you are now an ACTIVE owner building up YOUR own assets in your private cyberspace - by applying your compute to your data.
You can now take advantage of your newly acquired ownership over your data to gain unprecedented productivity and security e.g.
- receiving data income (previously taken by cloud platforms)
- analysing detailed data deeply (previously not possible on cloud platforms due to privacy reasons)
- interacting directly with people safely (previously you need to go through cloud platforms)
- etc. etc.
The benefits that come from transforming from an user to an ower are virtually endless ...
Compute Everywhere
The massive injection of compute power into the population improves every aspect of modern life from personal dignity (how you value yourself and how others value you) to national security (wars are won by the industries at the back as much as on the battlefields at the front).
Similar to what the microprocessor did 50 years ago (which gave birth to Apple, Microsoft etc.), Private Cyberspace enables the massive global decentralisation of computing.
The new compute capability is like another dawn of Personal Computing ... people can once again build up their information spaces freely just like renovating their physical spaces at home!
However, the most exciting new capability is not just working on your data yourself, it is working with others.
Private Cyberspace takes advantage of the latest technologies (homomorphic encryption for trust, artificial intelligence for ease of use, mesh routing for connectivity etc.) to promote collaboration between Private Cyberspaces, so they can work together to solve the most intractable problems facing humankind.
1.3. What makes Private Cyberspace Compute Unique ?
What makes Private Cyberspace Compute Unique ?
Separation of Control and Process
Private Cyberspace enables everyone, from billionaires to refugees, to keep their DATA and receive all the COMPUTE power they need to build their own information assets, independent of their wealth or skill levels.
The individual Private Cyberspace owner only needs a low end mobile phone (just wifi will do - mobile phone carrier optional) to run the Personal Console software in order to control millions of community computers with Disposable Node software worldwide.
This separation of CONTROL (using Personal Console software on personal phone) from PROCESS (using Disposable Node software on community computers) is a paradigm shift from traditional monolithic computing where everything is done centrally on Cloud Platforms.
Private Cyberspace is the world's first deployment of homomorphic encryption at scale, enabling individuals to leverage the massive latent resources within the community safely, thus removing the traditional cost and skill barriers that have prevented people from acquiring reliable compute power.
Under the protection of homomorphic encryption, data can now be stored and processed securely using the easy ONE COMMAND installed Disposable Node software running on community computers worldwide, to taking advantage of any excess resources available (e.g. idle bandwidth overnight, unused disk space, data collected while shopping, surplus solar energy during the day, bored retirees etc.).
Innovation Bottleneck
Innovation sets Human Intelligence apart from Artificial Intelligence, innovation needs compute and data to thrive, restricting the compute and data to dozens of companies worldwide is directly restricting the ability of the rest of us to innovate.
No matter how smart the staff are at the Cloud Platforms (Apple, Google, Open AI etc.), the diversity introduced through the participation of the rest of the world will result in MORE and BETTER innovations.
Most importantly, those innovations will be carried out under the DIRECTIONS of billions of citizens instead of dozens of board members.
Private Cyberspace provides instant compute power to MANY so their digital lives are no longer dependent on the compute power from a FEW (e.g. Apple, Google, ChatGPT etc.).
2. Getting Started
With just ONE CLICK you can install the Personal Console software into your web browsers instantly.
- NO download from App Stores or Play Store
- NO sign-up to any service or create any account
- NO contacts e.g. username, email, phone number etc. needed
- NO advertisement or any unsolicited interruption
- NO leaking of data outside of your phone
- NO charge for use, distribution, modification (refer to license)
- NO hidden operation (source code is published publicly)
After installation, you can create your first piece of Information Asset in your Private Cyberspace by following the One Second Collect tutorial in the Quick Start Guide. Other web pages of interest to Personal Console beginners are:
- Personal Console Introduction
- Personal Console User Guide
- Personal Console Installation
2.3. Console Security
To maintain Personal Console's security model, you MUST:
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Run the Personal Console software on personal devices that you own - hardware that you have EXCLUSIVE and FULL control of.
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Dedicate a web browser just for Personal Console (e.g. Chrome on Android and Safari on iOS) and use a different web browser (e.g. Firefox, Edge etc.) for visiting your other web sites.
2.4. Supplementary Devices
After the Personal Console software has been installed on your phone, you can optionally add more personal devices to it to improve your Private Cyberspace control experience.
By Personal Console Laptops ,we mean any personal computers with a web browser, so it can also be a desktop or even a TV. The only condition is you must have exclusive control of it.
2.4.1. Phones
After the ONE CLICK create, Console software is installed in your web browser, enabling you to start collecting information into your Private Cyberspace within just ONE SECOND.
Below is the view of a Console after some data have been collected.
The ONE SECOND collection of your location is just a start, built-in sensors let you collect unprecedented amount of data easily on your phone for your OWN private use e.g. your movements throughout the day, neighbours' wifi signals, friends' bluetooth headset signals, rapid antigen test results, product barcodes, cafe QR codes, shopping receipts etc.
2.4.2. Laptops
Some pages on your Personal Console (e.g. the Area Browser shown below) is best view on a larger screen.
Check out the above sample COVID cases in Sydney Australia using the link below on your phone and on your laptop, to appreciate the benefits of accessing your Personal Console from a laptop: in some cases
https://map.contacttrace.com.au/areabrowser/#10/-33.8197/151.2611
2.4.3. Controllers
There are numerous problems with using Cloud peripherals like speakers and cameras, which control and monitors you more than letting you control and monitor others.
Normally Personal Console runs on mobile phones but it has a special mode to support functioning on controllers that cost only tens of dollars. We brought back the idea of the pager from decades ago due to the massive increase in mobile phone prices recently.
Besides cheaper pricing, advantages of the Controllers include their small size, light weight, low power consumption and massive hardware expandability.
In locations that have NO cell phone nor wifi coverage, you can use Controllers with long range LoRa network capability (in additional to built-in wifi and bluetooth) for basic ultra low cost communication.
These Controllers do NOT need any centralised operator when communicating through LoRa, they send text messages directly to each other using license-free sub-gigahertz long-distance radio frequency bands (915MHz in Australia). They work together as a team, pagers in the middle can relay messages between 2 Controllers that are normally out of LoRa radio range with each other.
2.2. Personal Console Applications
Private Cyberspace removes the SKILL barrier to SECURE application by rewarding assistances provided to others (no matter how small) and enabling everyone to control their applications and infrastructures easily through mixing and matching computing nodes (like toy bricks) without technical knowledge.
Centralisation is about a few protecting many others, while Partitioning is about many protecting themselves.
3. Disposable Node
Why cost less than Cloud Platforms ?
We use Personal Console instead of Centralised Application
- NEW computers starting from only US$8
- EXISTING computers that have spare capacities
Damaged computers (e.g. laptops with broken screens or faulty keyboards) are our favourite! Since external screen and keyboard can be attached for Disposable Node software installation and are no longer required afterwards.
Disposable Nodes work with each other to supply almost unlimited Collaborative Compute power to your Private Cyberspace.
For tasks that are beyond the capabilities of your own devices (e.g. Data Backup, Large Video Conferences, Artificial Intelligence Training etc.) you can tap into the Collaborative Compute power offered by other Private Cyberspaces.
With just ONE COMMAND, we can install the Disposable Node software onto most computers.
3. Live Demos
Private Cyberspace gives you an exclusive space to store and add value to your data, transforming you from a passive user of cloud information assets to an active owner with dignity controlling your own information assets.
Private Cyberspace reverses the existing computing process flow, instead of giving away your data to be process by cloud compute (making the cloud stronger and you weaker), it ensures equity by giving you secure and productive compute power to process your data yourself.
Private Cyberspace encourages innovation by partitioning into nodes so non-technical owners can make changes independently and easily.
3.1. Demonstrations for Individual Citizen
Private Cyberspace can be used to in 2 basic ways:
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Citizen Compute
Provide a compatible computing environment to add-value (e.g. security, reliability) to most EXISTING software e.g. Wordpress for web site, Nextcloud for file storage, Mastodon for social networking etc. are preloaded in most Private Cyberspace.
Private Cyberspace can also be used to provide
There is no limit what type of service you can provide in your private cyberspace, although we can classify them into roughly
- Citizen Compute
- Value-Added version of EXISTING services.
- Private Cyberspace provides a Compute Environment with extra features ( to most existing software in a transparent manner.
- Citizen Synergy
- NEW services that cloud platforms cannot do
- | insight, impact
you might just want to use it to store all your photos, so the faces of your friends and family are recognised and classified by your AI instead of in the Cloud's AI.
However you maximise your impact of you work as a force multiplier with other private cyberspace
can help the world act as a force m
to make large impact on the world you can work together
Population scale improvement in productivity
To test our claims on the productivity
(which is preloaded in most Private Cyberspaces).
Below are 4 improvements you can make by working with other private cyberspaces RIGHT NOW, we cannot wait to see what other improvements to the world you can make with your space.
- Test our ability to stop pandemics by trying out Virtual Vaccine
- Test our ability to stop cyberattacks by trying out Geo Attest
- Test our ability to stop data wastage by trying out Infinite Disk
- Test our ability to stop AI inequity by trying out Partition AI
Stop Pandemics
COVID-19 has defeated the contact tracing systems of ALL GOVERNMENTS worldwide.
- Private Cyberspace solved the Privacy vs Visibility Conundrum by allowing citizens to contact trace THEMSELVES in their own Private Cyberspaces without disclosing their locations.
- It brings together the compute and data from millions of mobile phones to isolate the virus rapidly and precisely before the first vaccine is even developed - without getting overwhelmed - without needing lockdowns.
Digital Efficiency
Private Cyberspace was developed to solve the Privacy vs Visibility conundrum that have defeated ALL government contact tracing systems worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, which targets mainly the old and the weak. Private Cyberspace maintains the core principle of not leaving anyone behind as it expands to solve other population scale problems.
4. Create your Space
Never build your house on someone else's land.
Unlike a house, creating your Private Cyberspace only takes ONE CLICK. The Personal Console software will be installed in your web browser, turning your mobile phone or laptop into a Personal Console.
You can start building up your information asset immediately
your Private Cyberspace within just ONE SECOND.
Below is the view of a Personal Console after some location data have been collected.
- Physical Resources
idle bandwidth at night, unused space on new disks, laptops with broken screen or keyboard, excess computing power in wifi routers and mobile phones etc.
bored retiree etc.) within population are freed up with
Letting dozens of for-profit cloud platforms control the productivity of eight billion humans of us does not make sense ...
Yes, even those WITHOUT internet access are controlled by the cloud platforms indirectly through those that have internet access.
With computing power under you exclusive command working on data only you have, you gain INSIGHT, develop INNOVATION and achieve INDEPENDENCE that are not possible on cloud platforms.
How can individuals acquire the same reliable compute power as trillion dollar Cloud Platforms ?
Private Cyberspace solved it by DECENTRALISING existing productivity practises.
The transformation from an information User to Owner is made easy with Private Cyberspace's ability to make use of existing commodity hardware for both frontend (Personal Console) and backend (Compute Station).
Hardware is not expensive, reliability is. What sets personal console and compute station apart from traditional compute systems, is their ability to work together seamlessly across ownership boundaries in order deliver reliability levels that are higher than that of cloud platforms.
1.3. Create your Space
The ONE SECOND collection of your location is just a start, built-in sensors let you collect unprecedented amount of data easily on your phone for your OWN private use e.g. your movements throughout the day, neighbours' wifi signals, friends' bluetooth headset signals, rapid antigen test results, product barcodes, cafe QR codes, shopping receipts etc.
in information technology from everyone PASSIVELY using cloud platforms to ACTIVELY building citizen ecosystems.
Information Industry
Any open sourced applications (millions available on Github alone) can run inside private cyberspaces immediately without change.
Having your data in your own Private Cyberspaces means you can actively increase your value in ways not possible when you are passively using cloud platforms:
Non Information Industries
Information technology is such a fundamental part of modern life, what started off as a transfer of power from cloud platforms to the citizens becomes a transfer of power to the citizens across many industries.
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Citizens can now overcome the slow responses and high prices of real vaccines by protecting themselves with the virtual vaccines application inside their own private cyberspaces.
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Citizens can now control precise geo positioning both indoors and outdoors without needing to build rockets and pollute the outer space by using the geo attest application inside their own private cyberspace.
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Citizens can now control precise geo positioning both indoors and outdoors without needing to build rockets and pollute the outer space by using the geo attest application inside their own private cyberspace.
With that one click, Personal Console software is installed into your browser, giving you exclusive control your newly created Private Cyberspace (which initially only exist inside your browser).
1.1. Aliases
A major benefit of Private Cyberspace is security and that starts with protecting your identity. Using the personal console on your mobile phone, you can create as many aliases as you like in your Private Cyberspace and use difference aliases in different situations:
- A Private alias is created by default allowing you to collect of data into your cyberspace but not sending any data out. This is useful for gaining insights into yourself and the wider world.
- As you become more familiar with your private cyberspace, you can add some Anonymous aliases to share data anonymously with others. This is useful for earning income from the data you have collected.
- Finally, you can add some Member aliases to disclose some aspects of your identity in a safe way in certain situations. This is useful for protecting your identity e.g. after a data breach.
1.2. Functions
Private Cyberspace performs 3 main functions:
- Provides you with exclusive access to unlimited, secured and reliable storage for all your data at low RISK.
- Enables you to import low COST computing power from the community to process your data by leveraging idle resources and taking over cloud incomes.
- Enables you to exchange resources with others in a safe and trusted manner without needing special SKILL.
Data stored in your Private Cyberspace
The same citizen synergy technology designed to handle pandemics that have defeated all government contact tracing systems is now used to overwhelm hackers.
It solves the visibility vs privacy conundrum, giving you unprecedented security (e.g. protect your identity after it has been stolen), productivity (e.g. contact trace virus that have defeated all governments), impact (e.g. transfer data income from the Cloud to you).
1.1. How does Private Cyberspace work ?
Instead of sending your data away to be processed by the Clouds, Private Cyberspace gives you the compute power to process your data yourself.
By removing the Cost and Skill barriers to computing, we would like to reintroduce personal computing into every home, take the excitement and possibilities of the Homebrew Computer Club (that Steve Jobs and even Bill Gates got involved).
Private Cyberspace delivers computing power to data owners by removing the Cost, Skill, Trust and Reward barriers that have prevented individuals from storing, processing and exchanging their own data themselves.
With unlimited COMPUTE under your exclusive control, you can process your DATA without restriction and EXCHANGE the result with others without exposing it to the Cloud.
1.2. Unique Benefits
Private Cyberspace complements the traditional Server driven Security with novel User driven Security and traditional Business driven Productivity with novel Customer driven Productivity.
In order to supply reliable compute power EQUITABLY to everyone (independent of their skill and wealth), we aggregate the resources of the whole population with a novel Crowd Infrastructure that:
Crowd Infrastructure enables you to operate independent from interests of the Clouds and innovate outside their rules.
Citizen Synergy allows you to exchange data securely with many Private Cyberspaces giving you insights and incomes that were previously only available to the Clouds.
1.4. Try Now
Test our claims above with just ONE CLICK under the protection of our Private Cyberspace Guarantee (under no obligation of any kind you can make use of community resources to create and operate your cyberspace for free until your cyberspace is generating enough income to cover it itself).
Like a physical private space, your private cyberspace gives you a secure place to think deeply without interruptions from influencers and notifications. Unlike a physical space, it has unlimited capacity to store you whole life's data.
1.2. Without Cost
The Cloud generates massive profits despite providing its services to you daily at "no cost".
Once you have a collection of data, you can start generating income from those data, so the Private Cyberspace can start to pay for itself.
Your Private Cyberspace can be made "no cost" by redirecting income earned from your data from the Cloud back to you and leveraging unused storage capacity within the community:
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Raw data storage is cheap, the expensive part is making that storage RELIABLE so that it is fast, secure, expandable and always available. Infinite Disk overcomes the COST barrier by making use of idle data storage capacity around the world to increase reliability.
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Cloud data are normally under some privacy laws limited their use, you however can use your private cyberspace data any way you like (since you are the only one that has perspective across all Clouds and all industries).
You now have control of your data as well as the ability to make money from them at no cost under the privacy protection of the world's first deployment of homomorphic encryption at scale.
3. Gain Insight
Data are not useful by themselves, they needs compute power to process them in order to create value for you and others.
The world is a diverse place letting dozens of CTOs from tech companies innovate for billions of us does not made sense, worse still they are all innovating in the interest of their employers, not us.
Disposable Node removes SKILL barrier to compute for everyone (from billionaires to refugees) by leveraging community latent resources and redirecting cloud data income. Anyone can build asset by mixing and matching these computing nodes (like toy bricks) without technical knowledge.
Currently DATA is being given to those with COMPUTE power (the Cloud).
Disposable Node gives COMPUTE power to those with DATA (You).
2.1. Process Data Innovatively
By processing your data within your Private Cyberspace with the compute imported from Citizen Synergy exchanges, you start to build up your assets instead the cloud's assets and start receiving data incomes that used to go to the Cloud. These data incomes should be MORE than enough to cover all the compute your cyberspace requires from the exchanges.
With artificial intelligence under the control of individuals for the first time, Private Cyberspace ushers in a new age of human-machine teaming. With unlimited reliable storage for their most detailed and private data, Private Cyberspace gives individuals omniscient situational awareness.
2.2. Without Skill
It removes the SKILL barrier to information OWNERSHIP by enabling everyone (from billionaires to refugees) to process their data easily through mixing and matching computing nodes (like toy bricks) without technical knowledge.
3. Make Impact
Disposable Nodes enables resources to be EXCHANGED efficiently and equitably in a trusted manner with protected privacy, rewarded contribution and assured quality. Everyone can collaborate and be compensated for solving intractable problems (e.g. covid19, online fraud) that challenge all governments.
Private Cyberspace overcomes traditional skill and cost barriers associated with information asset ownership with revolutionary Disposable Node technology that enabling EVERYONE, from billionaires to refugees, to keep their DATA and receive all the COMPUTE power they need to develop their information assets, no matter their skill or wealth levels.
All an individual need is a low end mobile phone, which can be easily funded by the savings from obsoleting endless COVID vaccines.
Disposable Node can run most traditional applications seamlessly, it looks just like a normal computer (with added reliability, security, capacity and support features).
There are more that 100 million software repositories on Github alone. Numerous innovative and useful software applications can now take advantage of the funding and infrastructure provided by Citizen Synergy.
4. Citizen Ecosystem
Although Private Cyberspaces can interact directly with each other at anytime under mutually agreed rules, Citizen Ecosystems provide ready made structures that Private Cyberspaces with common interests can join and interact with each other based on predefined rules of the ecosystem, WITHOUT needing to make individual interaction agreements with each other.
Common functions provided by Citizen Ecosystems to Private Cyberspaces are:
- Maintain trusted directories.
- Issue ecosystem coins.
- Liaise with government departments.
- Protect intellectual property rights.
- Manage shared resources.
88..io is a global ecosystem that cannot be used in a lot of situations due to separation of power, currently 3 trial National Ecosystems are being developed:
- net2max.au - Australia
- net2max.cn - China
- net2max.us - United States of America
Those are open for anyone with are physically inside those countries to use. Contact us if you would like help in deploying national or smaller scale ecosystems.