Chapter 2197: Safety Measures

Since the possibility of future mass production was already considered during the design phase, although this version of the Inspiration Headband is not yet a truly finished product, the mass production approach can already be used to simplify the manufacturing process.

What Xia Duo is currently doing is "writing" the relevant operations into the Alchemy Array to achieve the goal of automating most of the production steps; only the Link Magic Web part cannot be delegated to machines for the time being.

Recently, due to the infrastructure construction of the Floating City, the Magic Technician Office of the Tower of Time has been unable to spare more manpower to assist him in producing the Inspiration Headband.

He can only complete the quasi-Magic Artifact parts first, and then do as much as he can later, so as not to delay the needs of the Progress Society.

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As for whether to install an Arcane Energy Field resonance excitation Activator, Xia Duo has no such plans for the time being, and it is not because most Apprentices are currently still in the Tower of Time or the No. 1 Spire, where the Arcane Energy Field does not cover.

It is rather that for a device that may be carried and used frequently by everyone in the future, it would be too inconvenient if it only possessed "Wi-Fi" functionality.

In Xia Duo's vision, civilian facilities that generally do not require much movement in the future will adopt the activation method of resonating and exciting with the Arcane Energy Field, while those Magic Items that need to move frequently with individuals should ideally have the function of independently linking to the Magic Net.

Otherwise, once they are outside the coverage of the Arcane Energy Field, wouldn't they just turn into a pile of scrap iron?

……

In the process of preparing Inspiration Headbands for the Mages of the Tower of Time, because it is purely "manual" labor, Xia Duo has spare attention to think about the future development of the Mind Sharing Network.

It is foreseeable that if there are no special circumstances, he will complete the security protection measures for the Mind Sharing Network as his first priority.

Letting the top group of people in the Tower of Time "streak" in the Mind Network all day long makes his back feel cold just thinking about it, especially since he has already offended Zhamu Dasi, who is skilled in Psionic and the mental domain in the south.

Mind Network security must be guaranteed as soon as possible!

Regarding network security, although Xia Duo has not had contact with the Mind Network before, he is no stranger to the internet, and the relevant ideas can be fully borrowed here.

As of now, he already has two major lines of thought.

One is to divide Permission Levels, allowing a small number of people to only obtain information from the Mind Network without having to share their minds, and the information obtained would not be consciousness information, but rather parsed conventional information.

This is an approach similar to physical isolation; in this case, even if the entire Mind Network goes out of control, it will not affect that small group of people.

But this method can only protect a few people, and the Mind Network would also suffer a great loss without the participation of these people, who, though few in number, have an exceptionally high quality of meta-thinking.

Thus, there is another isolation approach—dividing the network into blocks!

That is, splitting the entire Mind Network into different areas and different levels of local area networks, such as the Progress Society members forming a separate network, while others in the Tower of Time form another group.

In the future, if outsiders or ordinary people join the network, more groups can be established.

Groups are connected to each other through the existence of something like a Gateway, so that when an accident occurs in an individual local area network, it can be isolated from the entire large network.

However, doing so also has a certain degree of uncertainty. First, of course, is the communication between various local area networks; consciousness information can be regarded as a non-standardized Common Tongue, capable of self-expression and self-parsing.

In other words, this special language is difficult to encrypt because encryption itself changes the essence of the information, including the content one wants to convey and, most crucially, the parsing method.

This is a completely irreversible change. Xia Duo guesses that this may involve the origin of free will and is also the foundation of the existence of "I think, therefore I am."

If the information itself cannot be encrypted, even if local area networks and Gateways are set up, it is ultimately difficult to avoid intrusion by those with ulterior motives. Intrusion is not just about sabotage; perhaps it is just secretly stealing information!

In addition, the non-standardization of consciousness information also makes the meta-thinking provided by every individual accessing the Mind Network extremely difficult to distinguish.

To put it colloquially—even if an enemy accesses it, it may not be possible to distinguish that they are an enemy.

Of course, to deal with this situation, one can choose to increase the perception sensitivity of the Inspiration Headband, allowing the meta-thinking provided by the user—which is essentially a share of the subconscious—to increase, enough for the administrator of the Mind Network to distinguish obvious enemy characteristics from it, or to classify everything without distinguishable characteristics as an intruder.

It is just that this will also bring new difficulties—the problem of privacy exposure.

If one does not care about privacy at all, the issue of the user's personal safety can actually be avoided by using a Consciousness Copy instead of the original consciousness to connect to the network.

But this is obviously not very realistic. Maintaining a Consciousness Copy for a long time requires Spirit Quality, and even creating it instantly for short-term preservation requires a huge cost, similar to a 【Mind Cage】.

For the former, even though Xia Duo already has the 【Blade of Spiritual Closure】 that can separate Spirit Quality into the smallest units, the fact that the "Twisted Phantom Core" exists determines that Spirit Quality is difficult to obtain stably.

As for the latter, it is to forcibly push a civilian device that has the opportunity to enter the homes of ordinary people to a level that only a very small number of people can afford.

If there are few people, the use of the Mind Network is small in itself, so why bother!

In reality, the privacy issue cannot be ignored at all. The more mature the civilization develops, the more obvious this problem will become, because the process of civilization development is also a process of continuous liberation of the individual.

In short, Mind Network security protection is difficult now, and it may be even more difficult in the future!

However, being difficult to do does not mean one should compromise with difficulties. Xia Duo knew a saying when he was very young: "Difficulties are like a spring; if you are strong, it is weak; if you are weak, it is strong."

For projects involving the personal safety of individuals in a civilization and the information security of a civilization, the more difficult it is, the more one must meet it head-on, and there can be no compromise on any detail. If one can do it best, one should never settle for second best.

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Inside the Laboratory.

In the process of making the Inspiration Headband, Xia Duo gradually finalized the research plan for Mind Network security.

Of course, outside of these plans, other plans such as Plane Exploration, Territory development, and the construction of internal conduct within the Progress Society will not be delayed, but will be carried out simultaneously; it is just that time will be tighter.

But the Sages of his hometown once said that time is like water in a sponge; as long as one is willing to squeeze, it can always be squeezed out. Xia Duo firmly believes in this.

……

Two days later.

Xia Duo, who was reviewing the development history and looking forward to the future of the Progress Society with its members, unexpectedly received a Sending from Badijiaer—

The Northland Alliance Assembly has made significant progress in the discussion on restricting War Spells. All premise definition issues have been settled, and it has now entered the discussion stage on the issues themselves.

Upon receiving this news, Xia Duo was quite surprised. He thought that they would be deadlocked for at least another month or so; he did not expect that only a few days after he returned, there would be such great progress there.

As for the subsequent substantive stage, Xia Duo is not worried. The various countries sat down together to discuss restricting War Spells precisely because of his outburst of anger in the south. Once the premise definition issues are settled, the rest are just some minor details, and he believes they will be resolved soon.

Once the relevant agreement is signed, the Northland will usher in a brand-new situation!