“By ensuring that all interactions with the hardware—such as moving axes, heating components, or performing other critical actions—are verified and secure, we can minimize risks and prevent potentially dangerous situations,” Bambu wrote in a FAQ. This was necessary, Bambu wrote, because of increases in requests made to its cloud services “through unofficial channels,” targeted DDOS attacks, and “peaks of up to 30 million unauthorized requests per day” (link added by Bambu).
While Bambu has caused attention-getting “abnormal traffic” before, and 3D printer web hacks are real, many of its customers noticed a less-touted effect: third-party software and tools, like slicers (which turn 3D designs into machine-printable “slices”) and third-party
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