UPR 8.04 r2 released
Written for Ubuntu Privacy Remix by Mark Preetorius on 2008-12-22
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The second stable version of "Ubuntu Privacy Remix - Hardened Heron" contains all Ubuntu updates released until 20.12.2008, minor bugfixes and the new feature of mounting removable media with the 'noexec' option, thus preventing the execution of (malicious) software from removable media.
More details:
Changelog UPR 8.04 stable r2, released 20.12.2008:
1. Removable media is mounted noexec by default
This closes the possibility of infecting the running system with malicious software running from removable media formatted with vfat, ntfs, ext2 or ext3.
2. Security Updates adopted from Ubuntu
All Ubuntu Updates and Security Updates released since the last release until
20081219 are added.
3. Minor bugfixes to the extended Truecrypt volume scripts
