in other random annoyances...

[deird1]

Apple has just succumbed to the "security question" thing. Which is totally fine.

What is not fine is that, like 90% of the security-question-using world, they are setting the questions for you.


Pre-set question that I'll know the answer too: "What is your mother's maiden name?" That one I could answer in my sleep. Absolutely no problem with that. And I'd also be fine if they'd let me write my own questions. I have several things that I know the answer to that would UTTERLY BAFFLE anyone who isn't me.

But no. They're all intent on having questions like:
- What was your least favourite car?
- Where were you on January 1, 2000?
- What is your favourite song?
- Who was your first school teacher?

...and other things that I can't possibly answer. Seriously - how should I know where I was on a New Years Day 12 years ago? And my favourite song changes approximately once a day.

And yet, somehow, I have to pick a security question... and hope desperately that I'll never have to remember the answer to it.

Comments

[velvetwhip]

I hate, hate, hate pre-set security questions.


Gabrielle

[curiouswombat]

Me too. in the end the only way to deal with them is to put your mother's maiden name as the answer to any or all of them...

What was your least favourite car? Smith
- Where were you on January 1, 2000? Smith
- What is your favourite song? Smith
- Who was your first school teacher? Smith

:)

[velvetwhip]

I want one of the questions to be: What is the frequency?


Gabrielle

[curiouswombat]

To which the answer would, of course, be your mother's maiden name....

[velvetwhip]

Thanks, Kenneth!


Gabrielle