[necovek]

Since firmware is supposed to be accessible to users worldwide, making it easier to get it is good.

But how is an open, read-only S3 bucket worse than a read-only HTTPS site hosting exactly the same data?

The only thing I can see is that it is much easier to make it writeable by accident (for HTTPS web site or API, you need quite some implementation effort).

[wkat4242]

No wait I agree with you. I think it is bad framing as "S3 open bucket" when people would totally understand an open website :)