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Honestly, the bank protocol is overkill for 90% of users. Most people using iCloud are using it to sync photos of their cat. The number who are keeping "their life" in the cloud is basically confined to techno-geeks.

Your average iCloud user is not necessarily going to want to a) prove their identity initially or b) do so again to get support.

I think you are better off taking the approach of "don't put something in the cloud if you can't afford to lose/expose it." Yeah, that pretty much limits its usefulness, at least or now. So it is.



If you dont put anything of value in iCloud, you dont care enough about a reset: you could just setup a new account.

Having every underpaid store clerk being able to reset the account of every customer, is just dangerously stupid.

Just not having a reset feature is even better.




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