Hot on the heels of Bambu Lab’s announcement that it would be locking down all network access to its X1-series 3D printers with new firmware, the X.509 certificate and private key from the Ba…
And this simple security flaw was humorously left alone until they clamped down on sane use of customers printers.
It reminds me of what happened to the PS3. Sony shipped them with an option called “other OS” that was a full Linux install. Tons of enthusiasts and orgs, including Universities and the USAF, used this to turn hundreds of PS3 into computer clusters for research or to do other interesting things.
Well, about 3 years in, Sony decided to just disable that feature out of the blue. They were of course sued and lost millions because of it, but the fun part is that up to that point, for literally 3 years, they had no piracy on the console. It had a semi novel protection scheme that no one had hacked, a point they touted proudly. Well, about a week after that, geohot, a hardware hacker, broke this scheme specifically because they disabled “Other OS,” which allowed piracy on the console.
Its almost like pissing off your deeply technical user base in the name of enshittification can backfire.
And this simple security flaw was humorously left alone until they clamped down on sane use of customers printers.
It reminds me of what happened to the PS3. Sony shipped them with an option called “other OS” that was a full Linux install. Tons of enthusiasts and orgs, including Universities and the USAF, used this to turn hundreds of PS3 into computer clusters for research or to do other interesting things.
Well, about 3 years in, Sony decided to just disable that feature out of the blue. They were of course sued and lost millions because of it, but the fun part is that up to that point, for literally 3 years, they had no piracy on the console. It had a semi novel protection scheme that no one had hacked, a point they touted proudly. Well, about a week after that, geohot, a hardware hacker, broke this scheme specifically because they disabled “Other OS,” which allowed piracy on the console.
Its almost like pissing off your deeply technical user base in the name of enshittification can backfire.