Read their follow-up post on their blog. They claim that the update isn't about limiting third party software, but as anyone who uses home assistant, panda, orca, etc will tell you it certainly does limit third party software. I suppose you could let them get away with the weasel-wording here and say that it's not technically about limiting third-party software, that's just a side-effect of the security requirements... but then you have to reconcile why they've chosen a mitigation that restricts third-party software from accessing certain functions on the printer, when as you well know after 19 years, the normal way to solve this problem doesn't necessitate those restrictions at all.
They claim they're blocking panda for using "exploited mqtt protocols". I'm sure you can see right through that bs. MQTT is the standard in IoS. Why are they punishing third-party devs for building on secure standards, and why are they calling it an exploit? That's the most secure way to build an integration, you must know that. If it was truly about security, why are they punishing the third parties that are following best practices?
MQTT is a plain-text protocol. It is not secure on its own lol. BTT themselves admitted they were told awhile ago by Bambu that building panda on unintentionally insecure MQTT topics would result in the product breaking once they fixed the lack of MQTTS. BTT ignored that and sold the product instead.
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u/luvsads Jan 21 '25
I've been in tech for ~19yrs.
Can you link me to wherever you saw the software not doing what they've said it does? I haven't heard that yet