WARNING - Etcher Sends private information to third parties
Etcher is recommend by many people for burning image files to USB drives for distro testing, but TAILS just removed their recommendation for Etcher based on sharing information with third parties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufDVKQ4C8-0
https://tails.net/news/rufus/index.en.html
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2025-03-09 06:46:54
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2025-03-09 06:46:54Event JSON
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