- You can unlock your mac using you apple watch.
- You can confirm payments using your apple watch.
A thief having your mac and watch can do/buy everything? Is it just me thinging about it?
A thief having your mac and watch can do/buy everything? Is it just me thinging about it?
- a passcode is required to use features like Apple Pay
- the watch can be configured such that it only has to be unlocked once, until it is removed from the wrist/rebooted/manually locked
Not true. You just double tap the side button and can use Apple Pay. The way it secures itself is that as soon as you remove it from your wrist it locks and requires a passcode. You can't do anything with it until you enter the passcode.
Also, the watch automatically enters a locked state when its off your wrist.
Or, perhaps because you put in in the bag to go through airport security, and the bag was handed to someone else.
Your phone is locked because its got TouchID enabled and a passcode.
Your laptop is locked as well. Getting in here requires you unlock something first, even if you have everything. The stronger security devices provide authentication to the weaker ones.
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.