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by joombaga 2802 days ago
CAN and CAN'T in this kind of documentation should sometimes be interpreted as WILL and WON'T, or HAVE BEEN TRAINED NOT TO.
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A friend of mine used to work in Apple's account security phone department, and can confirm that they really do mean CAN'T. Support techs can view a few bits of information that aren't displayed to the user, but cannot change anything.