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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Apple have stolen my iPAD
Date: 12 Apr 2016 20:52:12 GMT
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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2016-04-12, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> > Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> In article <dn2lkdFliruU1@mid.individual.net>,
> >> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >"Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote in message 
> >> >news:dn2kc5Fl7foU1@mid.individual.net...
> >> >>
> >> >> You can reset your Apple ID password through other means,
> >> >> including by answering security questions you set up when you
> >> >> created the account.
> >> >
> >> >But when you have invented an email address to use in the original
> >> >Apple ID used to setup the idevice, and forgotten that password
> >> >because you never use that Apple ID again, there is no way to even
> >> >supply any security questions and since its not a real email
> >> >address, you can't even receive anything from Apple at that email
> >> >address.
> >> 
> >> "Invented an email address"?? "Not a real email address"?? Anyone who
> >> set up an Apple account and tried to register an Apple device with a
> >> fake address is asking for problems. They could never have even
> >> received Apple's acknowledgment of their registration.
> >
> >   But then the registration should have *failed* - for lack of e-mail
> >   to website confirmation -, and hence there would be no
> >   ID/account/<whatever>, and hence the current problem of recovering
> >   an account would/could not exist.
> >
> >   Surely Apple isn't so stupid as not to confirm the correctness of
> >   e-mail addresses!?
> 
> The OP claims to have used a valid me.com address, and then promptly
> discarded and forgot the password for it. Then much later when he needed
> it, rather than clicking the "forgot password" (or equivalent) link to
> reset the password, he tried and failed to get the password right so
> many times that his account was locked. This is clearly all Apple's
> fault, and the OP bears no responsibility whatsoever in the matter. /s

  If that's the case, the account should be unlocked after a time-out or
Apple should be able to unlock the account upon request (Note: NOT give
the password, but remove the lock.)

  Not *really* rocket science! This is SOP for many if not all accounts.

  But heh, Apple is perfect, so blame-the-victim it is!