Security questions....

[flick]

Apple just made me answer three out of five security questions, for my iTunes account.

I really hope that I never need them: I didn't actually know the answer to more than two of them, and it wouldn't let me put the same answer in for all of them....

Comments

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

I hate it when they ask questions that are too vague or can be answered multiple ways, e.g. who was your best friend as a child? Do you mean before or after I fell out with Bob Smith at age twelve and three quarters?

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

The one I really hate is "what was the name of your first teacher?" I don't know, I was four and I've had a lot since then!

[dalmeny]

I had similar problems with Apple's questions. For example, I remember the name of my first teacher but might not be able to spell it consistently as it is Gaelic.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Such ambiguity pretty much true of all my likely answers. Was my first school Hutchie, Hutchesons or Hurchesons Girls Grammar School? Was I born in Barrow or Barrow-in-Furness? is my mother's first name Henrietta or Penny? You can see why I stick to mother's maiden name even if is the most easily scammed. (And we didn;t have pets!)

[dalmeny]

[Irrelevant to the thread, but wanted to say my dad got a half-scholarship to Hutchesons in high school and then was able to become the first person in my family to attend university. I grew up reading his old science books, some of which were school prizes and had award plaques at the front.

Scotland: small country.]

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

Surely your first teacher was called "Miss" (or possibly "Sir")?

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes, good point!

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

What is your favorite book / movie?

You mean, today?

[dalmeny]

Yes, those are particularly ludicrous. Might as well ask what you had for lunch.