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If that's your paranoia level: How do you know the "offline" tool you're using is not uploading to a server? Possibly inadvertently in the course of bug reports, or surreptitiously while contacting the license server...?

Should security concerns really warrant not trusting the (reputable) vendor that the files are not being uploaded, you would need to do some sort of audit and/or run in an isolated environment and wouldn't be the "random user" referred to in OP.




You can easily block network access for an app on Windows using Windows Firewall. Same on a few Android skins such as MIUI by Xiaomi


same is true for Chrome Browser, open dev tools and select Network to "Offline"


Thanks




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