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Investigate the outgoing network connections of Etcher

balenaEtcher exfiltrates very sensitive information about its users to the Balena company and probably to more third-parties.

For example:

  • The IP of the user
  • The filename of the image, which lets Balena knows that the user is installing Tails
  • The brand and model of the USB stick

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Edited by sajolida
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