![]() I went into the settings, and there’s an option that says, “Anonymously report errors and usage statistics to resin.io.” I unchecked it, cleared the rules, and restarted Etcher, and it STILL made connections to many more sites than resin.io, including well-known marketing sites such as Mixpanel, GoSquared, and Google. Why does a disk flashing utility need to talk to FACEBOOK? Facebook was the “final straw” that prompted me to gather all of this data and make this post. I can understand that the app might want to “phone home” to check for updates to the software, but I was surprised at how many connections the app made, ESPECIALLY when I saw a connection to. However, I became concerned when I launched the app and my Little Snitch firewall started asking me about all the outbound network connections the app was making behind the scenes. It appears to be an open-source project that makes a tedious chore easy to remember. I have many years of experience with Linux, and I’m capable of using dd at the command-line, but sometimes it’s nice to do things the easy way.Īt first, I was delighted to find Etcher. ![]() I just downloaded Etcher 1.4.4 on my MacBook Pro running macos 10.14 Mojave, because I wanted to quickly create a bootable USB thumb drive from a Linux ISO. ![]() I don’t know (yet) if this is a problem with the Etcher code itself, or a side-effect of using the bloated electron framework. ![]() Furthermore, when a user disables the option “Anonymously report errors and usage statistics to resin.io,” the app STILL makes most of those connections to sites that collect usage statistics.Įtcher attempts to connect to Mixpanel, GoSquared, and Google’s Marketing Platform, regardless of whether or not a user has disabled the “Anonymously report errors and usage statistics” option. Etcher makes a surprisingly large number of network connections behind the scenes that are not necessary for burning an ISO image to a SD card or thumb drive. ![]()
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