[therein]

It is all so frustrating.

Reminds me of what Ubiquiti tried to pull a few weeks ago. They wanted to force everyone to their Cloud UI and login instead of the local interfaces so they reduced the local session lifetime to something insane like 20 minutes while lying to our faces and saying it is for security, and kept the session lifetime longer on their cloud panels. They made sure to exclude this from their changelog too.

The community started monkey patching their local scripts, wrote services to undo their changes, many people disabled auto-updates as Ubiquiti only makes their product worse with their updates. Publicly complained on their support forum that we are onto their little plot.

They ended up backtracking for now but you just know they will try again like Google does.

[Gormo]

That's sad news. I've been a fan of Ubiquiti for a long time, and the main selling point has been that they're fully self-managed on-prem infrastructure, with cloud services being an optional afterthought. Seeing them succumb to this disease of using security as a pretext to strongarm their customers is very disheartening.

I had another vendor try to use this argument with us just last week, and I had to vigorously remind them that they were not hired as a security contractor, and that our usage of their product was required to conform to our security policies, not theirs.