Nothing too fancy with the overlay, just some good old fashioned javascript + css. Seems like lots of people are interested so we'll whip up a blog post for everyone.
Sure, not everyone will want to install our agent and people using services like Heroku or AppHarbour wont be able to so we're working on a solution for that right now. Having an agent was the best way for us to launch and show off the features we are trying to push like real-time updates and historical zooming.
This is largely a theoretical argument that we hackers like to bring up as a way to dismis the tor network.
The truth that we all learned after the lulsec debacle was that the FBI will resort to much simpler and more effective low-tech procedures to spy on their prey.
I really like this new model but it got me thinking about how hard it's going to be for Aziz to push his content to different types of media. Traditionally the labels would handle that (usually incompetently) but for a startup to focus on this niche would be awesome.
Ever since I first watched "ghost in the shell" years ago I've been a bit scared of a time when we will be able to plug our brain into a computer network... with the risk of getting it hacked.
I mean, you could always refuse to jack yourself in but I doubt I could.