mint.com's security tech and practices are here:
http://www.mint.com/privacy/security-tech/
They keep the passwords encrypted. They are not encrypted as one-way hashes
and they decrypt them to use at the bank sites. 24/7 security guards?
Even if they have a guard dog, I don't want someone
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their CC
numbers etc stolen by hackers at the bank level. I'm not sure I'd say Mint
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their CC
numbers etc stolen by hackers at the bank level. I'm not sure I'd say
On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:40 AM, mike wrote:
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress
making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to
the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their
CC
numbers etc stolen by hackers
Yes and no. Yes, the waiter can do bad things with your credit card.
Yet if you have ever left your credit card behind you will discover
that they usually go to great lengths to protect your card and get it
back to you promptly. If these were dishonest people they would be in
a different line
I'm not talking about CC numbers. I'm worried about a third-party company
storing my sensitive passwords in its servers. It's the principle of the
thing ... if you are okay with it, go for it.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:40 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
You eat out? Give your credit card or
Quoting tjpa t...@tjpa.com:
On Jan 6, 2010, at 9:40 AM, mike wrote:
You eat out? Give your credit card or visa debit to the waitress making
2+tips an hour? Drive through at jack or mcds and give the card to the kid
making 8 bucks an hour? Not to mention all the people who get their CC
At 01:41 PM 1/6/2010, you wrote:
Date:Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:44:53 -0500
From:Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: new bank and a mint
There was a significant problem not long ago,
especially in major cities, with wait staff who
had handheld card readers. They'd quietly swipe
On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Chris Dunford wrote:
There was a significant problem not long ago, especially in major
cities, with wait staff who had handheld card readers. They'd
quietly swipe cards and sell the information. I don't know if this is
Is this not an urban legend?
I do not know about the card reader, but we did have a problem here a
few year ago with an ethnic restaurant getting card numbers of
patrons and using them. People prosecuted, problem ended.
Local police chief had it happen to him in Georgia.
I would figure if you are at a place you know and
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Rich Schinnell richnrockvi...@gmail.comwrote:
You specify the max amount and the expiration date for the shopsafe card
and you print out a replica of the card with all the data necessary to
on-line shop with the safety of knowing that it can only be used to the
At BofA, I have their visa card and they offer
ShopSafeR is their free service for Online
Banking customers that allows you to create a
unique, temporary account number for online purchases.
You specify the max amount and the expiration date for the shopsafe card
and you print out a
There was a significant problem not long ago, especially in major
cities, with wait staff who had handheld card readers. They'd
quietly swipe cards and sell the information. I don't know if this is
Is this not an urban legend?
Nope.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/washington/
Is that for one single purchase or for one short period of time? If I want
to make three on-line purchases (three different vendors) in an evening, do I
have to get three different temporary VISA Card numbers?
Has anyone ever been able to learn specifically how a compromised credit card
I would figure if you are at a place you know and trust not as much
of a problem than if you are somewhere you are totally unfamiliar with.
Apparently not. If you read the article I linked to in the reply to Tom, you'll
see that some of the restaurants in question were very well-known DC
There was a significant problem not long ago, especially in major cities, with
wait staff who had handheld card readers. They'd quietly swipe cards and sell
the information. I don't know if this is
Is this not an urban legend?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/washington/
Well
We are considering moving to a new bank, one small reason to do this is
because our bank doesn't support mint.com, there are other larger reasons
for the move but don't involve the tech side of things. So...anyone have
thoughts on mint.com specifically and or banks they use to interface with
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Subject: [CGUYS] new bank and a mint
We are considering moving to a new bank, one small reason to do this is
because our bank doesn't support mint.com, there are other
On Jan 5, 2010, at 2:47 AM, Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. wrote:
Now that MINT is part of Intuit, I would presume more banks will be
supporting the program...
And fewer of us may be interested in signing up with mint.com. I was
about to check them out and that news stopped me dead in my
Right. I was afraid I'd give the impression I was switching JUST for mint,
but I'm not. I was trying to simply keep it in line with our subject matter
in that the two main reasons I'm switching are not directly related to what
we try to discuss here.
I've never used Mint as my credit union
A friend of mine used Mint for a bit but grew to hate it. He had hoped
to eliminate the need for posting receipts to Quicken (or a similar)
application but complained that they often took days to post
transactions or failed to include details like the vendor names for
debit transactions. As a
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