ITunes New Security Questions Suck!

I have never seen a more ignorant choice of security questions. Is this a joke? Digital punking? There is no way I will ever be able to recover my password in the future because I couldn't find three questions I didn't need to GUESS at!
Answer Question 1: I don't know that was a million years ago!
Answer Question 2: I don't know that was a million years ago!
Answer Question 3: I don't know I never cared enough to remember for a million years!
Answer Question 4: I don't know any normal human being who would know the answer to that question!
Answer Question 5: I don't know that was a million years ago!

I didn't ask for easy, I didn't ask for anything. Now I will... Give me relevant, effective, secure options for recovering my account after you punish me for going more than a month without buying anything from you, Apple.
OWASP's security guide says this about security questions/answers, (bold added by me)...
They are unacceptable for the following reasons:
1. Collection of information about people without their explicit consent (such as "Mother's maiden name") is illegal in most privacy regimes. Such collection is subject to privacy laws, review and correction by the subject, and so on.
2. IT Security Policies and standards such as ISO 27000 prohibit the clear text storage of passwords, but almost all Q&A schemes store both the question and answer in the clear.
3. The information in the answers is public for a goodly portion of the users of the Internet, and thus is found using public sources.
Interestingly, Apple has not signed on to OWASP's guidelines, while much of their competition has.
How can Apple possibly think this is good business? It's just shopping... get over yourself!

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