1. Installation
Just go to 88.io and you will be redirect to the closest server to you (e.g. app.contacttrace.com.au)
where Virtual Vaccine will then be installed into your web browser.
- NO download from App Stores or Play Store
- NO sign-up to any service or create any account
- NO advertisement or any unsolicited interruption
- NO leaking of data outside of your phone
- NO username, email, phone number etc. needed
- NO charge for use, distribution, modification (refer to license)
- NO hidden operation (source code is published publicly)
Once installed it will ask permission to access your location, like any other data collected by Virtual Vaccine, the location data collected stays on your phone and is used to display your location to you only.
2. Quick Start
Collect your first location into Virtual Vaccine in just ONE SECOND.
On start up the Virtual Vaccine application displays a map, showing your current location in the middle of it as a blue dot (as shown below).
First, click on the "Add Location Pin" button on the right of the screen (as shown above) to add a Pin on the map to indicate your current location.
Second, click on the "Web Pin" button on the resulting menu (as shown above) to use the Web Browser's internal geolocation value as your current location.
Congrats! The location pin you just collected can be used in MANY other applications beside Virtual Vaccine. You are on your way to building up value assets in your own Private Cyberspace.
3. Location Pins
Location Pin is an easy and powerful way of collecting information about you and your environment.
They do not just tell you locations on the map, you can attach ANY sort of useful information onto each of them e.g. food orders, people names, shopping receipts, wifi signals etc.
The more pins you collect
- the more details you have to TRACK down the virus
- the better insight you GAIN into your lifestyle
- the more data you can SELL to potential buyers
The Pins are all numbered from the beginning of each day. So the first pin of the day is number 1, then 2, then 3 etc.
To help you see where the data for each pin came from easily, they can have different colours.
Touch Pin
Placed by touching the exact location on the map
Server Pin
Import from Servers (e.g. external gps devices)
Phone Pin
Import from Phone (e.g. gpx, kml mobile apps)
QR Pin
Placed by scanning QR codes
Web Pin
Placed by using current geolocation from web browser
Name Pin
Placed by selecting from a list of names of venue nearby
App Pin
import from our own app (e.g. 88io.apk)
4. Increasing Accuracy
Apple and Google have massive geo-positioning capabilities, but accuracy on their mobiles is still not good enough for within metre positioning - this is where you can help.
If you zoom into the blue dot on your map, by spreading out with 2 fingers, you will see a blue circle around the blue dot, which indicates the accuracy of your location as reported by the blue dot (as shown below).
Some governments offer high resolution images for free (e.g. NSW Australia) which act as a great background map (as shown below).
For high accuracy placement, you can use the image background to see whether the blue dot is indicating your current position properly and only use Web Pin if it is acceptable.
For example, as shown below, the user was standing next to a rubbish bin collection area.
Web Pins are coloured Black. All Pins are numbered in chronological order (as shown below).
When the blue dot accuracy of your current location is poor, you can use Touch Pin to specify a more accurate position by selecting Touch Pin instead of Web Pin and then touching the map at the correct position.
For example, as shown below, the blue dot was in the middle of the road when the user was standing on the pavement, so the user clicked the Touch Pin button instead of the Web Pin button and touched the screen.
Touch Pins are coloured Green. There are lines linking all pins together in chronological order (as shown below).
5. QRcode, Barcode and Text scanning
Unlike the very limited COVID QR Code scanners, Virtual Vaccine can make use of any QR code, Barcode and Text images, e.g. overseas COVID QR Codes, Alipay, bus seats, home made QR codes etc.
A faster result is normally achieved when using the rear facing camera.
If the QRcode scanning is successful, a blue pin will be displayed on the map.
Barcode scanning
To take the photo, it must be done in landscape mode and if it is detected, it will be shown as below.
After clicking on the barcode result, a black pin will be displayed on the map.
Text scanning
Use the camera to take a photo of the text or the image to be scanned.
If the result is successful, a black pin will be displayed on the map.
6. Home Page
Virtual Vaccine looks just like other online maps where you can see your daily movements, with added features to fight COVID.
- Base Map button displays different Base Maps as the background. The sample above is using the Transport Base Map, you can see the bus route number 418 along the roads. Besides picking different Base Maps for different purposes, you can also edit those maps online by just clicking the "Edit" button.
- QR Scanner button scans ANY QR code safely for contact tracing (e.g. bus shops QR codes, Alipay Wechat QR codes, product QR codes, all COVID QR codes worldwide).
- Current Location button shows you rapidly where you are on the map (and depending on your phone might also show the direction you are facing).
- Add Pin button enables you to put locations you have visited on the map.
- Menu button allows you to select the easy One Button Contact Trace Mode or the full featured Advanced Mode.
- Copyright button gives you more details on the creators of the displayed Base Map
No data leave your phone under the default COLLECT alias - so it will work even if you disable communication e.g. turn on "air plane" mode.
Personal Map
After the click, your Personal Map available at https://app.contacttrace.com.au will be installed inside your mobile phone browser.
You can use it immediately to start building up your personal information assets by scanning COVID QR codes, Shopping Barcodes, Bus Shops QR Codes etc.
You can also install mobile apps to feed your Personal Map automatically with locations you have visited and wireless signals you have encountered (e.g. bluetooth signals from other COVID apps, TVs, earbuds etc.) while it remains in your pocket.
Unlike other apps, your have full independent control of Citizen Assisted Contact Tracing right on your phone. By default:
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NO sending of DATA outside your phone.
When needed (say you tested COVID positive or someone offered you a bag of cash) you can selectively disclose some of the collected data. -
NO running of SOFTWARE outside your phone.
Software (e.g. Personal Map itself) does not need to "phone home" to operate. In fact you can make a copy and start your own COVID fighting force independent of us.
As you gain more confidence in Citizen Assisted Contact Tracing, you can start to exchange data and rewards with other citizens under the protection of the Fiduciary Exchange.
Add Location Pins
To start you need to feed your selected Alias with some location.
Virtual Vaccine Modes
Although your COLLECT Alias gives you perfect memory (e.g. history of your movements), when there is a large outbreak, it might takes too long to be notified out-of-band (e.g. through TV news) that you might be exposed and wait for you to submit your movement manually.
When there is an outbreak you can OPTIONALLY use your SHARE Alias to submit some of your data to the Fiduciary Exchange under the protection of novel technologies like Dynamic Alias and Fuzzy Block.
Instead of submitting data directly to the government, Fiduciary Exchange allows your data to be processed and shared differently under your FULL CONTROL depending on the current threat level.
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COLLECT Alias can be used in Defensive Mode - when there is no outbreak. You do NOT have to submit any data to Fiduciary Exchange, only basic automatic logging on your phone and manual scanning of mandatory QR codes, thus saving battery, data traffic and manual effort.
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SHARE Alias can be used on Offensive Mode - when there is an outbreak. You can send your privacy protected data into the Fiduciary Exchange, turn on intensive automatic logging and perform frequent manual scanning of voluntary QR codes or tapping on Virtual Markers in locations without QR codes.
The anonymity and speed of Exposure Notifications sent by the Fiduciary Exchange are controlled by the citizens themselves based on their own circumstances.
Fiduciary Exchange uses blockchains to scale up linearly according to demand and to protect against bad citizens with malicious intents. The more citizens, the more data, the more devices, the more anonymity, the more security.
Community Map
Citizens can choose to contribute public data to the Community Map available at https://map.contacttrace.com.au under the protection of the Fiduciary Exchange's Dynamic Alias.
People accessing the Community Map can use the different trust levels assigned by Fiduciary Exchange to get an indication of the quality of different information provided on the map by different Aliases.
From COVID test queue lengths to availability of Pfizer vaccine at a GP, any information relevant to the COVID fight is welcomed.
The Community Map is also using the Bluetooth and Wifi signals (collected as part of the Data Fusion function) donated by some citizen volunteers to to build a terrestrial indoor friendly Geopositioning Network. No need for foreign satellites and rockets, a national critical infrastructure built and owned by the citizens!
Being In Control
By storing your data on your device AND performing computation on them yourself, you retain control and thus ownership of your data.
For people who are used to submitting their data PASSIVELY to the Cloud, the freedom of controlling their data ACTIVELY can be a liberating experience.
Those who don't move, don't notice their chains.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Disclosing your data to enrich or to enslave, to protect or to attack, to gain or to deliver value ... now it is YOUR choice and no longer the Cloud's choice.
VIRTUAL VACCINE
At least one pin is required. It can be a Web pin, a Touch pin, a QR pin or an Imported pin.
The pins displayed will be based on the values in the settings.
Display Date: show pins created on this date.
Display Timezone: show pins created with the selected time zone.
Block Type: Local (small area, 30 minute block) or Global (much bigger area, 1 day block).
Duration Length: from 1 day to 28 days.
Duration Storage: from 28 days to 60 days.
Duration End: pins created after the selected date will not be displayed.
Auto Submit: if turned on, it will automatically submit the last Covid status to every new pin created.
Copy Government: if turned on, it will send the status to a government agency.
L1: Local block 1.
1P: 1 pin.
Neighbours: display and check Covid status submitted in the 8 surrounding blocks.
Status: submit a Covid status
Check: display the Covid status submitted within the same block (not available for "Collect" users).
Receive Message: display all messages sent and received within the same block (not available for "Collect" users).
Send Message: submit a message to other users within the same block (not available for "Collect" users).
The alphanumeric characters on the right are the aliases who send the messages.
Example:
"Positive PCR test result" was sent by VRv3LDPY alias on 03-Mar-2022 at 13.27.
"In the Haymarket area" was sent by 1QE0UEEA alias on 03-Mar-2022 at 13:29.
Data
Vaccination, Test, Quarantine and Symptoms allow users to store the result. There is also an option to share the result.
ID: Anonymous or Alias
Reward: Free or Paid
Fuzziness: Local, Global or Exact
Scope: Event, Value or Explore
Risks
Vulnerability: Yes, No
Hotspots: Display areas on the map where there are covid cases for the last 28 days
Current: Display the current location on the map
Past: Set the number of days
Web Console
Web Console gives you control of your Private Cyberspace through a web browser interface.
To ensure maximum privacy, it can operate OFFLINE without any network connection.
For details please visit Web Console page.
Custom Ringtone
Custom Ringtone notification is available only to Guest Aliases (Share) and Member Aliases (Change).
Available "Send Phone" numbers:
61282050080
61282050081
61282050082
61282050083
61282050084
61282050085
61282050086
61282050087
61282050088
61282050089
SET UP
Go to ALIAS -> 4.Notification -> Ringtone.
Send Phone = the Caller ID (DNIS number) displayed on the receiving mobile phone
Receive Phone = the receiving mobile phone number
Text Code = the unique digits used by senders to ring you
Expiry Date = ringtone will no longer active after this date
If the ringtone has been created successfully, it will be shown as below.
For more details on using Custom Ringtone, please visit the user guide for android or ios
