Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update

Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by louwrentius on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:11PM (#42773702)

Meanwhile Jeff Geerling already put a video out on his second channel that he won’t recommend a bambu lab printer anymore although he was happy with his printer. And this update didn’t convince him to change his mind.

“Developer mode” isn’t a solution. You buy hardware and it should work 100% without cloud connectivity. Otherwise it’s not your hardware.

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by sitkack on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:42PM (#42773982)

Absolutely!

Local first, everything that should likely run locally should be enabled.

You can’t use the desktop software to see the contents of the SD card, you have to enable cloud access.

I own two Bambu printers, great hardware, and ok software. No longer recommending them.

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by muppetman on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:45PM (#42774016)

There is little I find more hilarious than the "<talking head> has put out a video on their <youtube/tiktok/facebook> that says <thing>" comment reply.

I summarise all these replies in my head as "Influencer I've never heard of influences"

I agree with your re: Developer mode though.

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by throw_a_grenade on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:14AM (#42777118)

This is not the case though, Jeff Geerling is not a no-name influencer. He actually does stuff, contributes to Fedora and AlmaLinux (IIRC). The most influencer-y stuff would be his playing with funny Raspberry Pi setups, but calling that "influencing" would be uncharitable. That's a hobby.

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by muppetman on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @03:10AM (#42777636)

Yes I'm sure a small subsection of people have heard of him/look up to him for his achievements. I've no doubt he's a smart intelligent person. I'm not having a go at Jeff.

My point was the hilarious cult worship of these people. "X posted a video about Y gasp" when 1 in 10,000 know who X is.

Influencer influences! Film at 11!

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by mmorriso on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:55PM (#42774124)

I use LAN mode for my P1S currently in a shed with a local AP and no internet access and it works fine.

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by barbazoo on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:22PM (#42774355)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kfolYkRNM

Says even then you have to use their app and cloud service to set up the printer.

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by the_mitsuhiko on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:36PM (#42774492)

I don't think this is correct. I'm fairly certain you can enable LAN only mode without signing in on the printer.

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by hammond on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:02PM (#42776000)

It's not true, my P1S+AMS has never touched the Internet and I was able to set it up fine on an isolated wifi network out of the box.

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by Jzush on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:48PM (#42774045)

Yeah, what is the point of developer mode for a device you’re not “allowed” to develop for anyway?

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Re:Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Securit... by parasubvert on Monday January 20, 2025 @05:44PM (#42774001)

Neither LAN mode nor Developer mode requires cloud connectivity. Keep spreading the FUD though.

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