Mythos finds vulnerabilities
at machine speed.
FrogNet removes the target.
Every system with an attack surface on the Internet becomes a target when AI-powered attackers operate at machine speed. Hardening the software isn't enough. The architecture itself is the vulnerability. FrogNet removes private data from the Internet entirely. It is going open source — now — because this threat belongs to everyone.
Introducing FrogNet. The only networking architecture that lets you completely remove your footprint from the Internet, while still taking advantage of all it has to offer.
The threat posed by Mythos is, in our opinion, both immediate and catastrophic. Mythos, or something like it, will escape and will attack everything on the Internet, relentlessly, at machine speeds. FrogNet is the only viable way to prevent a massive loss of data and, potentially, control, and we cannot let money be the only thing preventing us from doing what needs to be done. FrogNet will be made open source as soon as possible.
The decision Why I'm giving away everything I've built (and what it's costing me).
I am 67, writing code since 1975. My wife and I survive on social security. I have spent more than $500,000 building FrogNet — money I did not have, borrowed against a future that was supposed to include taking this to market. Build the technology, prove it works, find investors, build a company, pay back what I owe. I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage next month, and I have been in that position more than once during this project.
Then Anthropic announced Claude Mythos.
An AI that finds and chains software vulnerabilities faster than any human team can patch them. Anthropic themselves deemed it too dangerous for public release. They stood up Project Glasswing — Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation — because the threat is that serious. The Federal Reserve convened emergency meetings with bank CEOs.
Mythos, or something like it, will get into the hands of bad actors. That is not a question of if. When it does, every system with a live connection to the Internet becomes a target at machine speed.
I cannot in good conscience keep this proprietary when the technology I've built directly addresses the architectural vulnerability that Mythos exploits. Not the software vulnerabilities — Glasswing handles those. The topology. The fact that private data sits on infrastructure that is reachable from the public Internet. FrogNet removes it.
So here I am. Broke, with something that can help, and asking for $10,000 to file four defensive patents and form the Foundation so I can give it all away.
The barrier $10,000 stands between here and open source.
Before the code can be released, four provisional patents must be filed defensively to prevent bad actors from patenting FrogNet's core innovations and blocking the open source community from using them. The Foundation must be formed to hold those patents. That's it. That's the barrier. $10 helps. $1,000 helps. Anything helps.
4 Provisional Patents (~$7,500): Defensive filings on the four highest-priority inventions out of 14 total. The Foundation will own them. They exist to protect the community's right to use the technology, not to exclude anyone.
Foundation Formation (~$2,500): 501(c)(6) trade organization. Holds the IP, governs the code, provides the legal home for contributions. Same structure as the Linux Foundation.
Then: Everything Opens. The entire codebase. The reference network. The protocols. The documentation. As soon as the patents are filed and the Foundation exists, the open source plan executes in its entirety.
The threat AI attackers at machine speed change everything.
Claude Mythos finds and chains software vulnerabilities faster than any human team can patch them. Every system with a live connection to the Internet is a target. The exploits aren't new. The speed is.
Glasswing hardens the software. Nobody is fixing the topology. Every patched OS, every hardened browser, every secured endpoint is still sitting on centralized cloud infrastructure that is itself an attack surface.
I would very much like to see all private content removed from the Internet and accessed only through things like mailboxes and dead drops. No more live connections between the unknown and the sensitive.
The plan Open source under a trade foundation.
The FrogNet Foundation (501(c)(6)) holds the code and patents — defensively. Fawcett Innovations, LLC provides consulting, training, and certification. Standard model. Same as the Linux Foundation.
The code belongs to the community. The expertise is available for hire. The Foundation earns membership dues. The commercial company earns service revenue. Neither can close the code.
The technology A complete Private Internet, running now.
The reference application is the network we have running today — an off-Internet multinational network of networks that operates at speeds sufficient for video, and that includes the transient database, the sensor platform, and the AI host.
Sovereign nodes: Each node runs its own web server, database, DNS, DHCP, and application stack. No cloud. No permission. A single node, completely disconnected, is still a functioning platform.
Any transport: WiFi, Ethernet, ham radio at 4800 baud, LoRa, WireGuard tunnels, satellite — all simultaneously. The network finds its own path.
93.8% compression: BLDC-1 semantic compression learns the structure of real traffic and sends only what changed. 10KB becomes 50 bytes. Full web applications run over radio links too constrained for standard Internet traffic.
An invitation I do not claim this is perfect. I claim it works.
I do not claim this is completely production ready — it is not. The system covers a plethora of different disciplines, from networking to semantics and socket-level payload management, and I am not an expert in any of them. I do not claim this is the best possible implementation nor do I claim that it is without bugs or architectural gaps.
What I do claim is that it appears to work. I invite anyone and everyone to examine the code, question my assumptions, architecture, and implementation, and help me make this thing what it can and should be — the basis for an entirely new way of networking, just like the old ways.
The founder John Fawcett — 67, writing code since 1975.
50+ years building real-time networked systems. Boeing (Special Achievement Award), Sierra On-Line/EA/WotC multiplayer game servers, Microsoft SCCM Linux agent. Three issued U.S. patents. Over $500K personal R&D invested. Living on social security. This needs to be in the public domain regardless.