A trivial pattern is safer than NFC, because it's more difficult to record surreptitiously. Getting a visual recording of your hand is more difficult than cloni

A trivial pattern is safer than NFC, because it's more difficult to record surreptitiously. Getting a visual recording of your hand is more difficult than cloning your ring's NFC tag data. No lock screen password is safer than NFC, because it's more difficult to unlock your phone. Getting a physical hand to unlock your phone is more difficult than transmitting an NFC unlock signal to it from a distance.