The 2021 breach revealed a terrifying truth: A bad actor gained access to Ubiquiti's AWS infrastructure and hosted code repositories. For a terrifying week, users didn't know if their controllers were sending traffic to Russia or the office.
Yet, there is a tension in the UBNT ecosystem. It is the tension between the Open Source ethos of the early internet and the walled garden of the modern tech giant. ubnt software
The software has evolved into a walled garden where the flowers are beautiful, but the gardener occasionally sets the shed on fire. To be a pro-Ubiquiti user is to constantly monitor the community forums, waiting for the "all clear" signal from a random power user named "Maverick85" before hitting update. The 2021 breach revealed a terrifying truth: A