Mint.com should be a platform

Re:Mint.com should be a platform by johSho7w on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @06:20PM (#1146773)

How does anyone decide to trust mint.com? It gives me the security hebbie-jebbies and all their claims of security assurances make the jebbies worse. They're still storing accounts and passwords in a form that can be recovered as plain text, right? I would slap any family members that use it and I'm a Buddhist.

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Re:Mint.com should be a platform by jmillikin on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @08:13PM (#1146965)

When you enter a username and password, they authenticate them with the bank, and receive a token. They store that token, not your credentials.

If I remember correctly, Mint is owned by Intuit, and subject to regular audits by the banks they've partnered with. Considering the relative quality of banking websites, I feel more secure checking my balance on Mint than via the official portal.

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Re:Mint.com should be a platform by Herring on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @09:48PM (#1147113)

And if they try anything, I'll be talking to my bank's fraud department within the hour.

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