Perhaps Apple need to reword their warning message[1] to scare people away from enabling it. The only indication that user is going to enable Remote Wipe is a little "erase a lost Mac" text, which I guess most people will just ignore it.

[1]: http://cl.ly/image/3u1D3F1W0m0B

I really do think these things should be separate, with separate enabled/disabled settings.

Especially on the iPhone/iPad where a lost device (i.e. behind the couch or something) is far more common than a stolen one.

I don't know. I travel a lot per train and losing my iPhone there or at a random bar/party I certainly want to remote wipe it.

But if you have enabled a 4-digit pin, why worry?

Remote wipe is a feature or Find My Mac.

I know. Remote Wipe is part of Find My Mac.

And it's not enabled by default.

You know. Many others don't, and some of those that do just want the finding without the wiping.