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may 28
2009

Mint

Proceeding Heffernan's column last week about Mint.com, a number of commenters voiced security concerns about the site. The CEO came back with a pretty interesting response about the level of security, which includes biometric access, video surveillance, "man-trap" doors, encryption, and other things straight outta Ocean's Seventeen. But here's something that's never exactly been addressed by Mint: read the fine print and you'll see that you're essentially handing over right of attorney to Mint. (They need to do this to get this level of access.) It's kinda creepy, but I still use it.

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Some ridiculously long title tags there. Not at all relevant, I know, but it's the first thing that I noticed.

posted by ShellMedia at 4:39 PM on May 28, 2009

I started using both mint.com and last.fm over the last couple of months. first the last.fm fiasco and now this.

is the internet fucked?

posted by alesh at 9:50 PM on May 28, 2009

I don't like mint.com at all, there are better sites on the internet that are similiar, I'm not gonna post any links, do some research.

posted by SkippJ at 11:21 AM on May 30, 2009




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