Bambu Lock Down
Bambu is locking its printers down further in a coming update. The biggest impact is likely for users of Orca Slicer and the question I have is; why? I have some theories. Bambu Lab cites security. A lot of people are calling BS. My thoughts? I'm not sure. It is possible. If so, it would largely be a problem of their own creation. The BL approach of sending all print jobs through the cloud unless you're using LAN Mode puts a burden on their cloud and also makes them the most interesting attack vector. Perhaps they are seeing an increase in load which they do not believe coincides with an increase in legitimate activity. This may be increasing their costs to operate the cloud portion of the service. This is hard to substantiate. I haven't heard anything to indicate such attacks are happening. However, if they have a good cyber security team it is also possible that they are detecting failed attacks or attacks are not being publicly reported widely enough or they are being mi...