Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control System
blog.bambulab.com
Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future release

Looks like Bambu is getting more enshittified. I am so glad I didn’t let my recent frustration at my clumsiness with my Prusa steer me into Bambu-land.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 month ago

    Then why implement over the top security and encryption in said RFID tags if it’s only for AMS compatibility? The fact they went to so much trouble is writing on the wall that some time in the future they want to try and implement a printer cartridge-esque walled garden where only approved filaments can be used.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 month ago

      Just for the record I looked at how they encrypt and sign the data and it’s nothing I would call over the top or particularly troublesome.
      Signing data that’s used to configure a piece of hardware isn’t unreasonable in my book.

      It would certainly be better to have a mechanism for custom tags, and better yet the ability for you to trust a filament producers key, but the mechanism they’ve used for the signing really doesn’t say anything to me of note.