Ubuntu Privacy Remix

This is a stable release. All software packages, including the kernel, were updated to their newest version to close security holes and fix bugs. The USB creator was added to allow creating a bootable USB drive from within the UPR environment itself.

All software packages (including the kernel) have been updated to their
newest versions to close security holes and fix bugs. Included are small
bugfixes and improvements in the scripts for handling extended TrueCrypt
volumes, including a new progress bar in the backup function during
cleanup of old backups. Beagle-backend-evolution has been added in order
to allow indexing of contacts, appointments, etc.

This version is based on Ubuntu 9.04. The most notable changes are much better hardware support, especially for screens and graphics cards; OpenOffice.org 3.0; the new notify-osd; and some new packages. Linux kernel 2.6.28.9 with the same modifications as before is used; i.e. no network support and no support for local hard disks. The rights of the live session user were restricted, so now only commands necessary for the scripts can be executed with admin rights. Loading of malicious code, especially drivers or kernel modules, is now a lot more difficult.

This release contains all security updates and bugfixes of Ubuntu 8.04 until 12/2/09, minor bugfixes, and feature enhancements, most notably overwriting free memory on shutdown to prevent a special UPR-specific side-channel attack.

This version contains all Ubuntu updates released
until 2008-12-19, minor bugfixes, and the new
feature of mounting removable media with the
"noexec" option, thus preventing the execution of
(malicious) software from removable media.