More data to help the etcher team get to the bottom of this.
Etcher as it starts up:
Etcher during a flash:
Etcher at the end of a flash:
I also captured the traffic with wire-shark this time, and if a Balena engineer wants to dig thru it please PM me.
No this wasn’t, I don’t know why that IP is displayed like that, but those are all external IPs.
No it is not, it is ASUS.
This makes sense to me. Etcher serves really light ads while it flashes your SD. Cool ads, but ads none the less. I don’t care but I image they are served thru the cloudflair network. However, it is weird that there is a google address in there. I am used to google tracking everything, mabye they are just using google anaylitics though.
Based on the usage I saw I think download things not upload anything. I think there is a bug where it fetchs something over and over again and really racks op the usage.
Now if I thought Balena was evil or unethical this could be true, but I don’t notice CPU usage or GPU usage. However, if their distribution pipeline has been hacked this could still be true if a third party injected code into BalenaEtcher.exe
I completely agree, and I would kinda like an answer from Balena around this to just resolve all concerns of something worse than a simple bug going on.