Hi people.

In response to a law that passed the german legislative today, I will cease
production, development and distribution of ROCKate binaries and – maybe -
even source code soon.

The reasen is §202c StGB which states (IANAL translation):

“Producing, acquiring, selling, giving, distributing or making-accessible of
passwords or other access codes as well as computer programs whose aim it is
to commi a crime … will be punished with up to one year in jail or a fine.”

See also: http://www.phenoelit.de/202/202.html

Basically, these waters are too hot for me to tread in. Though the official
reading of the wall – reading from politicians that is – says that they only
target ‘criminals’ and there is no need to worry with the wording, nobody
knows when some underworked lawyer thinks he might go on to sue the ass off
of everyone in IT.

If someone wants to mirror/host/develop ROCKate further, be my guest. If you
need technical assistance, I can offer guidance, but I probably won’t write
a single line of code anymore. Sorry.

Greetings, Benjamin

If you are in a country which is slightly more free than Germany and you want to help keep the ROCKate project alive then please do so. It is clear

The CD comes in a “small” version with Firefox, Fluxbox as as window manager and Tor/Privoxy and a full version with KDE and a whole lot of network security tools.

The CD may be a specially good investment in fascist-ruled countries such as those with in the NATO alliance since it will allow you to access censored websites and also allow you to download later versions of Tor if the tyrannical G8 dictators in the supposedly “free” world suddenly decide to revoke the common peoples access to uncensored information.

The CD may also be essential if you frequently travel from place to place and use the Internet – that is, if those places allow you to reboot the computers using your own CD, many libraries and Internet cafées will not allow you to do that. However, it’s been rumored that Internet café employees in Egypt only require a very small tip to allow tourist to do this. The same may be true in other parts of the world.

See http://www.patdouble.com/incognito.htm to d0wnload and to et more information.