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Re:Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to R... by bredren on Saturday October 13, 2018 @01:44AM (#18206633)
Unless I’m missing a setting, the watch doesn’t unlock without a pin. It locks when it loses contact with the wrist.

Also, are you suggesting WiFi from the hotel covered not only the front of but the depths of the embassy?

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Re:Murdered Saudi Rumoured to Have Used Apple Watch App to R... by thanatos_dem on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:39AM (#18206768)
The setting is in the Watch app. It’s Passcode > Unlock with iPhone. It used to be pretty hit or miss, but with the new OSes it’s worked really consistently.

And I’m not really suggesting anything about the WiFi. I know remarkably little about the network infrastructure in foreign hotels and embassies. Just that there are mechanism in iOS that could feasibly make this possible, rather than immediately jumping to a Turkish surveillance cover up.

You know, Occam’s razor and all that jazz.

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