Bug#1098713: Don't recommend balenaEtcher for writing images to USB

Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
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There is a report at heise.de [1] about critical privacy issues
with balenaEtcher, a tool to write ISO images to USB devices.

Maybe we should no longer recommend to use it [2], but switch
to rufus.


Holger



[1] <https://www.heise.de/news/ISO-Schreibprogramm-Tails-warnt-vor-balenaEtcher-10288826.html
[2] <https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#write-usb>


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