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Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named Block Blasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet.

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[+] -17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I only game on my steamdeck now. And it has practically zero security on it. Admin has no password. When I realized that I then came to the conclusion that Steam doesn't give a fuck about security.

I tried setting an admin password on it and it broke everything. So it's in a penalty box on my network and can't access anything except the outside internet and I do nothing with it but game.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As someone who duly boots linux and windows I feel like you're bullshitting here or didn't read manpages and put in a wrong command which you thought did something you wanted but actually fucked up your system

    Linux is very easy to break if you want to do it intentionally due to its freedom but I'd you know how to use it correctly it'll serve you well

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Not sure what you're talking about, the root password is not set, and that prevents people from being able to log into the account. Pretty standard setup on most computers nowadays where the root password isn't set on Linux.

    And the entire OS is basically reaf only except for a few select folders. So for security, it's pretty solid. You can't just install a package on a steam deck, you have to use flatpack to get a package installed, or you have to install a steam game.

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