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Security questions?!

Suddenly, and during installtion of an appliction from the store, I was asked about the 3 security questions of my account besides my rescue e-mail.
certainly, I don't remember the 3 questions with their answers and so I logged from my computer to my apple account and I didn't find them!
So, could you solve it for me?

iPad 2, iOS 5.1, apple store

Posted on Apr 11, 2012 11:38 AM

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Apr 17, 2012 5:42 PM in response to Dr. Ahmed Owais

I'm pretty worried about my security questions too. I haven't forgotten how I answered, but I'm sure I will do soon!


The idea of security questions is great, but who thought up the questions?!!! They are absolutely awful. They should be questions where there is only one possible answer. (Never owning a car also put me at a disadvantage too).


When I answer them in the future, I have no confidence that I wil use the same answers that I have just given. Surely in a company as smart as Apple, they should have thought a little more about this...


Is there any way to ask our own questions?

Apr 17, 2012 5:56 PM in response to Ash_uk12

I couldn't agree more. This new security is terrible. I posted about it before and Apple removed my 'rant' as a violation. The still say that this is personally identifiable information the you DO NOT want to provide to any site where it can be hacked and stolen. The whole thing is insulting on Apple's part - their attitude seems to be that we're all just sheep who can be told what do because there's nothing you can do about it but stop using their products. Hmmm.

Apr 18, 2012 10:49 PM in response to trollywog

I just got the questions too. I am sorry, but whoever thought this up is a total idiot (and I am using a milder word than what came to mind).


First off, some choice they are giving us - answer THREE out of their FOUR (wow!) stupid questions. Second of all, the four they chose could hardly be worse. I don't know / don't remember any such things. What am I supposed to do? Write b.s. and hope I'll remember it a year later? Last but not least, since when does Apple need to have my birth year on file when I just want to buy music? What's next - my blood type and SSN number?


I am seriously considering abanding iTunes store until they change this. And yes, I also find this insulting.

Apr 19, 2012 7:17 PM in response to Philly_Phan

Philly_Phan wrote:


You definitely should abandon the iTunes Store and do your business only with organizations that don't care if others steal your identity.


And, of course, we all know that there is only one way to deal with the identity theft problem - force the users to jump through hoops by making them memorize answers to a very short and restrictive list of idiotic questions - about their cars (personally I've never driven in my life - perhaps shocking to Californians, but not to New Yorkers), their first albums (does ANYONE remember this?), first teachers (ditto) and their first kisses (who the **** came up with that one?).


Oh, perhaps also require from users more personal information (e.g. birth year) than Apple has any legitimate business knowning. Yes, that should probably do it and of course, nothing else will suffice.

Apr 19, 2012 7:18 PM in response to Philly_Phan

I think that Apple applying this security layer is not the problem. The key problem here is the actual questions and the fact that they have to think practically about this. Providing questions that no one will remember the answers to just negate the benefit and will create a massive support overhead. Most people will have to go and recover their passwords as people will not remember the answers they provided to these irrelevant questions.

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