I was trying to make a few purchases from iTunes but was redirected to a page requesting that I set up security questions. I have no interest in making up fake answers to questions that I won't remember later on or in providing any real data about myself. If this is indeed being required by Apple and is not some type of malware attack how long before we can find a workaround so I can make my purchases?
Rather than jump through hoops I just bought the music from Amazon. I still need to find a solution before the next time I buy apps though.
Diamondrinc wrote:
PS.
I never give out my personal information in an email and never will. "
Never, ever, give out your personal information via email... N E V E R!
I quite agree.
Also consider this:
http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html
They want name, your appleID and an e-mail address - is this information being sent in the clear, unencrypted? Perhaps there are some secure elements in the page but there's no indication your details are transmitted securely.
AC
The type of questions encountered.
Bookmarked.
i aggree with you, but everyone here is just makeing a huge deal over somthing that is so little that this forum had to be made to make a such a big deal over,
i did it with my mom and dad even thou im around 1-25yrs old,
i just dont see why make a big deal over waisting you value of time being here when you could have already done going throu the security questions even thou you cant make your own questions like before you could.
just to remember this, alot of people are stealling and hacking into apple and robbing people, thats why with all the uptight security.
take (you) Diamondrinc for an example, i betcha u waisted over almost a half hr typing that up when you can just do the secrutiy questions that takes 5 easy cheesie mins,
if i were u guys complaining about the security, i would do the easy cheesie questions and save your time coming back to this post waisting your value of time which has already happened.
just do it and get on with your life, sooner or later, one by one of you guys probably listen to what im saying here and some of you wont, i dont care and you will do the security questions..
its not like your best friends or anything know what your mom's first car was.
let go of your grief with the new security and not be able to make your own question.
just grow up and "Keep Moving Forward - Walt Disney"
The problem isn't having the security questions the problem is in the implementation. I don't believe I have ever seen a set of such stupid questions. The stupidness of the questions wouldn't even be so bad if they gave the option to create your own questions but they don't. I think it would be very unlikely I would remember my answers a year or two down the road.
They're not "easy cheesie" questions. They're impossible. I have never had a car. I didn't have a favourite teacher. I can't remember what the first album was I bought. I am literally unable to answer most of these questions. The only way I can do this is by inventing three nonsense answers, writing them down somewhere safe, and hopefully remembering that I did this when, years from now, I'm faced with these questions once more.
The questions are the kind of thing you'd ask on a blind date, not reasonable security questions. Apple should allow people to write their own questions, or, failing that, provide a much larger selection of possible questions that don't revolve exclusively around cars, music, and childhood preferences.
I also have trouble answering most of the questions consistently. Questions about childhood? That was a torment I'd really prefer not to re-live. Cities? I've lived in one city all my life and it's publically available on the net.
Really, if this kind of thing must be done, at least let us enter questions that make sense.
I am also upset with these foolish questions.
The only person supporting them in this discussion is 25 years old. At that age memory of childhood is quite clear.
I am 54 and memory of childhood is cloudy. I could only answer 2 questions and we need 3.
I am sure the person who wrote these is also about 25 and has no way to understand the problem that we are having.
I refuse to write down passwords. That isn't secure.
It's like the safely caps on perscription drugs. At 54 I have no problem opening them. My parents have great difficulting opening them at age 80.
Hey, Apple management, I, too, hate your purchase/download-obstructive stupid security questions (dreamed up by a teenager, it seems).
I also hate that, after having entered my Apple ID password umpteen times already in the App Store app, you make me enter everything all over again to access the discussion board. Hey geniuses, why no iOS Keychain? (and I loathe your idiotic iOS keyboard layouts!)
I just got my reply for Apple Support. They didn't understand the problem and offered to reset my password if I e-mailed them some personal info.
I decided to give random answers so I can use the iTunes Store.
Some time in the future this problem will pop up again when I can't remember the answers I gave.
Like Scarlet O'Hara, "I think about that tomorrow."
These 3 security questions are stupid and annoying. Almost none of them apply to me, so, I just picked 3 random questions and answered Don't know, Have no idea, or Not sure.
Apple failed on implementing this. I guarantee most people won't remember any of the answers they gave to these security questions in 6 months time.
this is ridiculous. i am not downloading anything until this is addressed.
Perfect AppDG,
This is the dumbest things I have ever seen Apple do in my 35+ years of using Apple products.
What are they thinking?
Oh and I forgot to say when I called a few weeks ago to "_itch" about about my having to change a 10 year password.
I was told that do to the importance of security, I MUST change my password.
After much kicking and screaming I was was told that I could change my password from:
password
to
Password
Wow! I feel soooo much safer with the capital "P"
You have to be kidding me :-(
JonanathanCR is dead right!
The questions appear to have written by an adolescent. Who the **** at my age remembers school teachers? Who the heck has favourite colors? Who knows which of the Beach Boys is the cutest? Should a nice girl hold hands on the first date?
Jeeez!
Can Apple please put a grown-up in charge.
We don't want to carry around password aide memoires.
We want to make our own questions that make no sense to a thief.
If HSBC can do it, why not apple?
I got this trying to rent a movie. I literally cannot choose from the 2nd set of questions, because none of them apply to my personal life. Whoever designed this does not seem to have very much cultural awareness. Maybe they should read some Wittgenstein and try again. This is really annoying.
New Security Questions
