So if someone makes a bootable Linux USB stick
How hard is it to brick every dominated piece of hardware in the shops? (before it is sold)
Just for the fun of it... :-D
It's not vandalism, the hardware will not be damaged in any way. It only 'bricks itself by design'. It's a feature not a failure.... Once they see the feature fails, then they might fix it...
See as helping them to make them aware of this mistake.