this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2023
1150 points (95.5% liked)
memes
9680 readers
3414 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.
Sister communities
- [email protected] : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- [email protected] : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- [email protected] : Linux themed memes
- [email protected] : for those who love comic stories.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Watch is more convenient, it's also insanely insecure. Watch out for NFC scanners in public.
This is just pure bullshit scare tactics. In order to successfully make a transaction, I have to have my watch facing me, double click the button, and then hold it near the terminal for a few seconds. There is no way someone could just swoop in and do a transaction without my knowledge. It's bullshit fearmongering like this that makes people scared of new features like NameDrop. Quit it.
Sounds inconvenient! I take it back. Secure yes. Convenient no.
In my experience with my Apple Watch you have to activate the wallet functionality in order to pay for something by clicking the side button twice, which should make it harder for somebody to just walk around with a terminal charging random people. Phones usually need to be unlocked to make payments too. In theory NFC credit cards could be scanned like this, and if you're worried about that you can look into NFC blocking wallets... I'm not super worried about it, though, because usually you wouldn't be on the hook for such a fraudulent charge.
Apple is smart enough to design the feature in a way where the user has to know and approve the transaction. Dangblingus is a fucking idiot
Use credit cards and just report fraudulent charges