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So via your iCloud account someone can remote wipe all your Apple devices? That seems like a questionable design. Does anyone know the rationale behind this? I

So via your iCloud account someone can remote wipe all your Apple devices? That seems like a questionable design. Does anyone know the rationale behind this? I guess it would be useful to deny access to your data in the case where your device is physically stolen. Maybe there should be a significant time period (hours?) after a password change where this functionality (and any other data-destruction functionality) is disabled. Or maybe a password change should require you to re-auth every device before data remote deletion features can be used on it.

3143 14y ago
It's so that you can remote wipe your own devices if you lose them, in case you have sensitive data on them. For example, my employer requires that you enable this feature if you want to get your work email on your phone.
r00fus 14y ago
For this one reason alone, I have a pain-in-the-ass long AppleID password - 100+ bits entropy. It's a right pain to setup a new device (or even app) that can't be imaged off an existing backup, but it's worth it.