Why do I need to enter my credit card information, including 3 digits secure code to activate Genius?!

Hello,
I have installed iTunes in order to use Genius and receive ideas about what could please me.
When I activate genius I am always led to a page where my credit card information, including the three digit security code are asked.
If a transaction is attempted, please tell me: which one, of what amount?
If not, because Genius is free, why are you needing my security code (the three digit under my card)?
Regards,
Grunt.

I just attempted to create a new account when downloading a free application, and the problem remain the same. There is no way to select no credit card and a payment mode is mantadory.
The best way would be to add the choice:
"No Payment mode yet"
on that web page, to allow all users to select their payment mode only at buying time.
This would be far more secure for all the reasons I've said:
APPLE MAY BE HACKED LIKE SONY AND SHALL NOT STORE CREDIT CARDS INFORMATION.
ESPECIALLY NOT THE SECURE CODE!!!!!
Don't you agree?
Apple forces users to find messages among the Internet to understand how they could register without a credit card,
and not only these explainations don't work, but its far more complex for users to find them and try to follow them than to select a proper option THAT IS NOT HERE but should have been if the web site had been made a honest way.
BUT, if someone at Apple feel able to setup my account a way no payment mode is mandory,
please exceute yourself the proper operations to ensure it can truely be done,
because myself I am now sure that there is no way TODAY to create such account.
And no one from Apple will able to prove me I am wrong.
If you believe I am only doing mistakes during my registration, and this is what you are suggesting and I am doing attempts after attempts many differents way, please finish it well from you internal computing services. And eventually, if you failed or refuse to do so, change your web page instead to set that missing option on it.
Stop telling I am doing wrong:
Either correct my profile YOURSELVES at Apple, or correct your web site like any good company that pretend being customer friendly would do.
Apple,
You have a bug.
A design flaw.
Or you are too greedy.
BUT YOU SHALL ASSUME. And do the proper corrections accordingly without boring me anymore.
Thanks!

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