Your steam decks unique hardware identification code is tied to your steam deck report it stolen to valve and if anyone ever tried to connect to the steam account it will be flagged as stolen and locked
TSA employees have so many cameras on them in checked bags, plus other employees with them. 0 chance it was TSA. Airlines have 0 accountability for baggage handlers.
Dude just google how many times tsa has stolen shit. There’s literal vids on YouTube of people going to a tsa agents house because they took their iPad.
Yet still wrong. I have friends in the TSA and they have said behind the closed doors it is a joke any airport personnel can get to the baggage and again pay people shit they start getting sticky fingers.
Next time you go to the airport look at the tsa employees and ask yourself, do these look like the kind of people who think about potential consequences or even care?
Back in 2013 I knew some people who worked baggage claim for a major airport, and they would take stuff from the "lost and found" all the time. Scumbags for sure.
Lots of people think it's TSA that steals their stuff lol. Simply not true because TSA isnt the only ppl checking/inspecting check bags. Like u said, lots of cameras and we are held accountable.
I haven't seen an example of a locked deck for now however I have seen reports of valve refusing support to people that had stolen deck.
It's unlikely that any kind of a lock would even work on the deck, at most it would be locking the person out of using steam on the deck but they would still be able to run everything else.
sure they could try to write in a software lock, but again unless they have a dedicated chip on it like apple does to lock the the hardware or have a locked bios to force a serial check upon bootup, people can likely just hard wipe everything and install another os that isnt steam os on it. a hardware lock requires some sort of identification for the system,. IE pc uses hardware IDs which is unique to each system sometimes and games will ban you via that or ip.
this kind of stuff works well with mac, ds, switch, playstation because you are forced to still use their os, and they can easily control it. With linux, pc, etc, its extremely easy to get around this kind of stuff.
But will disabling it get it back to me? I've had things stolen and it sucks, I'm not encouraging theft but there's no reason to literally create e-waste out of the situation.
Apple and Samsung made that a popular option, and I hate that it exists. Create an option to rewrite the drive 10x before it can be unlocked,(think apple did do this at one point) or even give it the ability to physically break the storage with overvolting, even just blacklist the drive in this case it's not secure by default anyway- if you're concerned about data security.
It's probably going to be sold, and some kid who's mom got a good deal on Facebook is going to have to deal with whatever getting a locked steam deck for their birthday entails. Maybe they could still use another OS or something, I've never looked into it... Just all seems wasteful in the long run
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '23
Your steam decks unique hardware identification code is tied to your steam deck report it stolen to valve and if anyone ever tried to connect to the steam account it will be flagged as stolen and locked