“An Apple staffer at the hands-on demo told me how the watch will be protected against fraud,” Leander Kahney reports for Cult of Mac.
“The device can tell when it’s being worn and when it has been taken off. When you first put the watch on, you must enter a code,” Kahney reports. “When the watch is removed from your wrist, the watch locks itself and can’t be used for payments unless the code is entered again.”
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easy workaround: simply cut-off the arm of the watch owner, then enjoy a shopping spree at Nordstrom’s. (No one will notice.)
Why are people downvoting you? That was really funny.
——RM
I guess severed arm humor isn’t en vogue anymore.
Thanks to you, Apple has just added code to deactivate payments when your pulse stops.
To paraphrase Chuck Heston, “You can have my watch when you pry it off my cold, dead wrist.”
Hey when that is going to happen.
I want to pry it off of your cold wrist !!
We accept your terms… 😆
You know.. given their heart rate sensor that isn’t a bad idea.
I think that ended with the Addams Family, when Thing got caught with his fingers in the cookie jar
He forgot to close his snark
Did your forget the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Too soon, man. Too soon.
It wasn’t the comment people are down voting, that was hilarious!! They’re down voting your idiotic icon.
oh, well then the joke is on them.
Hell, you must have a lot of low class friends !
You are doing very well with LOW Scores !!
Are you a SamDung or a SamShit?
No pulse in a severed arm.
Chop your arm off? I do hope they’re joking. This isn’t the ‘cut off a finger for the fingerprint’ meme; the Apple Watch knows that it’s connected to a live wrist (using its sensors) to remain activated.
oh. back to the drawing board.
And I was responding to the article, not you. 🙂 Good timing!
No, they are serious.
seriously, wouldn’t you have to have the victim’s iPhone also?
Why is this new news?
They said that in the keynote, that MDN hasn’t seen it seems
It’s a new article. MDN publishes articles that we may or may not find interesting. They may or may not be redundant. 🙂
Give me your Apple Watch and give me your code number or I beat the crap out of you.
Seriously though, why isn’t some type of biometric identification built into the Apple Watch so it is tied to only the owner. No code, no log in, just senses biometrical’ly you are the owner.
What biometrics would you suggest that’s technically feasible to place into such a small device? I suggest there isn’t one at this time that would work.
I’m not an export. But Apple has hired a lot of experts.
Is there an uniqueness in the sounds of blood flowing through our veins and arteries? Is there a way to “see” a pattern in the layout of the veins and arteries under our skin?
No idea. But there are smarter people out there who are very creative in finding solutions.
Right, the first time you have jet lag, sick or give blood, then your biometric blood flow won’t unlock the Watch.
I would have expected fingerprint ID to work on the watch face
The watch face is a display, not a scanner like the button on the iPhone 5s and 6.
This is Version 1.0 of the Watch and release date is still about four months away. There’s plenty of time to change or incorporate additional features before it ships.
Enter a code every time I take it off to charge and put it back on? Sounds like a job for TouchID.
Why can’t the end of the digital crown be a fingerprint sensor. It doubles as the home button..
From a mugger’s point of view, if they notice anybody wearing an Apple Watch, they know that they must also be carrying a recent iPhone because the Apple Watch is no good without one.
They will also need the code.
It would be great to give a thief a fake code. A code that would seem to work but would activate tracking device and super lock down.
Great idea!
I hope Apple is reading seeing this posting.
Yeah, a “distress code”.
Unlocks the device but calls the authorities.
Or discharges the batteries through the case in a sort of “Taser-mode”, after a minute.
I do wonder how AAPL is going to protect their Stores esp. once the “Edition” watches hit their shelves.
These are worth thousands a piece. Well, OK, they cost thousands – but you get the point…
Here in Zurich, Switzerland, the Apple Store is next to shops selling jewelry, watches worth millions and after a couple of cars were driven through the store-fronts, they are now fortified like bank-vaults.
The Apple Store, OTOH, is _pure_ glass,