Security News > 2021 > August > Cloud load balancer snafu leads to 3D printer user printing on a stranger's kit
A 3D printer remote monitoring company accidentally exposed users' printers to each other after a cloud reconfiguration snafu.
Jiang added that his team had been "Notified of a case in which a user started a print on someone else's printer" - and linked through to a Reddit post where someone had used a stranger's printer to print the words: "TSD is not secure/ I randomly connected /sorry had to inform u.".
The Spaghetti Detective is a platform that gives 3D printer owners peace of mind by, so it says, using "AI" to "Intervene and catch failures early" during the 3D printing process.
Its name refers to a side-effect of 3D printing going wrong, where a time-consuming print may result in random strands and tendrils of plastic filament ending up splurged over the project.
A 3D-printing craftsman told The Register the scope for mischief with a 3D printer would be "Fairly limited" as the devices "Tend to be fairly safe."
Separately, last year, the appropriately named infosec biz Coalfire discovered a way of tampering with Flashforge 3D printer firmware updates to bypass thermal limits.