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Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher (tails.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I am shocked by this - the quote in below is very concerning:

"However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties."

Can't see myself using this software anymore...

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sudo dd if=tails.iso of=/dev/sdb

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    bash: Sudo: command not found

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In my early days of Linux, I royally fucked up a USB thumb drive (back when they were expensive) using dd and as a result do not trust myself with it.

    I would use Hannah Montana Linux if it was the only GUI option to burn a USB ISO.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Weird. I can't even tell you how many times I've used that command. But it's probably been several thousand. And I've never screwed up a flash drive that way.

    There has been once or twice where I've pulled the flash drive out too quickly after it finished writing and it actually hadn't finished writing and had to redo it, but other than that, I've not actually screwed up any drives beyond repair or anything.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    for Windows?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Rufus.

    And who cares if there's spyware on windows, you're already using windows so there is, it's windows. At that point you may as well just use etcher, but I'd use Rufus anyway because let's be real it's just better. The only reason not to use Rufus is because it's windows exclusive, but if you're using windows that probably doesn't bother you, so...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were on Windows. That's a Linux command. I haven't used Windows very much since about 2018, so I don't even consider Windows anymore unless it's brought up.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The article was about Windows. And, no, I'm not on Windows. i use GrapheneOS on my phone and triple-boot Arch/Debian/Fedora on my laptop. I'm just making the point that the article was about Windows so replying with UNIX commands doesn't really make sense.

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