This is what makes me suspicious about Chinese home products like govee and how cheap they are.
You're required to hard code in your SSID and Wi-Fi password. And they consistently beg for your location, despite having no need for it.
You're required to hard code in your SSID and Wi-Fi password. And they consistently beg for your location, despite having no need for it.
As if they're at a lack of options when it comes to addressing problems on the world stage like this. Stuxnet was both an exceptionally morally lazy and destructive act.
As an American citizen, I genuinely wish my government did NOT do that.
Except it didn't do that. It was found in dozens of networks in multiple countries. The vulnerabilities were discovered by other actors and used for other purposes.
The amount of collateral damage done here was far greater than the value of the initial operation. Importantly there were multiple different ways to achieve this particular outcome none of which required us to abuse vulnerabilities or release dangerous software to exploit them.
> This is just the state of software development/management we live in now.
Yes, and I think it's morally backwards, and I regret it.
> I really feel one of us have misreading of the situation.
I simply refuse to accept the intelligence agency marketing view of this action. It was incorrect. There were other less morally conflicted ways to solve this "problem."
Maybe you could argue that the hot end could be set to melt down, ignoring the built-in safety mechanisms, but thats a stretch for doing much more than breaking the printer due to the way it’s designed.
Regardless, if all of this still scares someone they can run it in local-only mode without internet access.
The Bambu printer fear mongering is ridiculous.
I suspect the biggest problems happen when users make their own mods and/or store their IPA or acetone next to the printer.
Simply noting that you have trouble getting a heated bed to stay hot does not mean that people's printers are not catching on fire.