Do you really want to put online all of your family information, your surname, your date of birth, online on a site which people can view day in day out?

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Or one that asked for your date of birth in one place and your age in another, and then required you to sign your name over and over again (and also print it out each time)?

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Turns out you can reset any Apple ID password with nothing more than a person's email address and date of birth -- two pieces of information that are pretty easy to come across.

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