Beware of false, harmful software claiming to be balenaEtcher

Please use the thread below to discuss the related blog post:

https://balena.io/blog/beware-false-software-claiming-to-be-balenaetcher/

Currently, the address given in this article redirects to a subdomain “https://etcher.balena.io/”. Given the nature of the content of this article I suggest making the correction for the sake of accuracy and to inspire greater confidence.

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Thank you @snyderpa we have informed our lawyers about it.

You can make downloads more secure by providing checksums.

Even better, you could provide GPG signatures. GPG signatures would be really great: users could keep Balena’s public key in our keyrings so that any time we needed to download Etcher we could verify the download’s integrity using that trusted key.

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