However, Little Snitch is not free software, so unless you’ve already purchased it for other reasons, this might not be be the best option. It will still try to go out to various Internet sites, but Little Snitch should stop it in its tracks.
One other option on a Mac is to keep using Etcher or balenaEtcher, but use Little Snitch to block all outgoing connections. To do that just go to the Additional Functions and Options settings and “Enable SSH”: For example, if you are creating a Raspbian Lite image to use as a server on a Raspberry Pi, you may want to enable ssh access. It’s designed to allow backing up an SD card, but the “Restore” function allows you to to create a bootable SD card or USB drive in a manner pretty similar to how it’s done in Etcher:ĪpplePi-Baker v2 is actually a much more capable program than Etcher. Mac: A program called ApplePi-Baker v2 is a great alternative. Windows: The program to use here is Rufus – their tag line is “Create bootable USB drives the easy way”: All we wanted to point out is that if you do have any concerns about using Etcher or balenaEtcher, there are alternatives, depending on which operating system you are using: We are neither lawyers nor European residents, so we are staying out of that dispute. Some users have opined that balenaEtcher might violate GDPR regulations in Europe (see for example balenaEtcher and privacy/GDPR #1266 from Github), but balena appears to disagree.
Serious Privacy Concerns with Etcher 1.4.4 – from – in case that page disappears, it’s also archived here.Įtcher 1.4.4 Ignores Privacy Setting #2497 – from Github – also archived here. What is a good replacement for Etcher (ads and ignores privacy) – from the Raspberry Pi Forums. Here are just three links where the issue is discussed: But we’re rethinking that now because we’ve read some concerns about privacy when using Etcher, or balenaEtcher as it is now called. We’ve used Etcher several times, mostly to make a bootable SD card for a Raspberry Pi or to put a bootable image of a Linux distribution onto a USB thumb drive.
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