At the very least, the current situation is that Bambu is incredibly lucky that no spammers or scammers have taken an interest in it yet. Since anyone can log in, including bots as I mentioned, the entire cloud could be rendered unusable, meaning no one would be able to use their printer or app.
For example: A competitor could cause significant damage to Bambu by simply rendering the cloud unusable over the weekend, over and over again.
This isn’t fantasy, but the current reality - something that many people simply aren’t aware of. However, if they read Bambu’s latest blog post carefully, they will see that this is Bambu’s biggest fear.
We’re not just talking about a few hobbyists here, but entire printing farm companies that use the cloud. Anyone using LAN is in luck.
What many people don’t understand is that this isn’t the end, but it could mark the beginning of much bigger problems. Now that Bambu has admitted this themselves, we can also see that there has never been a proper security system in place.
I’m curious to see what the outcry will be like when the first botnet start targeting the cloud, now that this has become so public. However, I really hope that Bambu will finally do something to improve security.
Edit: I think most people can still remember the huge outcry when MakerWorld was overrun by bots for weeks and months; now we’re talking about the cloud.
