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Re: My 2¢ on Mavericks

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On 10-25-2013, 10:20, Ted Lee wrote:
> I have a handful of different accounts for self-protection and it's
> annoying that when I first logged into each of them it went through the
> drill of asking for my AppleID.  But of course it's only a one-time (for
> each account) annoyance.

I tried to buy a 99-cent app today and got "since this is your first 
purchase on this device ..." (NO IT ISN'T) "... you must answer your 
security questions" (I NEVER RECORDED ANY ANSWERS)

Then the Apple support guy suggests I write down my answers.
They assume you don't know how to make a good password, so they put a 
bunch of silly rules to prevent you from creating one you can remember. 
  Warn you not to write it down because that's insecure.
But since you won't be able to remember it, they have you select and 
answer "security questions"  And since these are even harder to 
remember, they tell you to write them down!

-- 
Wes Groleau

    “Statistics are like bikinis.
     What they reveal is suggestive,
     but what they conceal is vital.”
                       — Aaron Levenstein

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My 2¢ on Mavericks Ted Lee <tmplee@mr.net> - 2013-10-25 09:20 -0500
  Re: My 2¢ on Mavericks Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-25 16:45 -0400
  Re: My 2¢ on Mavericks Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-10-26 02:50 -0400
  Re: My 2¢ on Mavericks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-10-31 12:59 -0700

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