[cortesoft]

On the flipside, you can also argue that if you are relying on network access to protect your internal services, you are doing it wrong. If the only thing you need to take over a service is access to its internal network, you are setting yourself up to be owned.

[dns_snek]

Yes but nobody is stopping you from adding your own proxy which enforces any type of authentication you like, and in my opinion that's the more sensible approach here anyway.

I don't think it's sensible to expect every project like Ollama to ship their own half-broken authentication and especially anything resembling a "zero trust" implementation. You can easily front Ollama with a reverse proxy which does those things if you'd like. Each component should do one thing well.

I trust Nginx to verify client certificates correctly so I can be confident that only traffic from trusted users is able to reach whatever insecure POS is hiding behind it.