Comments on: Follow-Up to Is Mint.com Safe http://www.jasonowens.com/follow-up-to-is-mint-com-safe/ Certified Security, Project, and IT Management skills with a background in leadership, integration, teaching, client management, and more... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:31:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cymen http://www.jasonowens.com/follow-up-to-is-mint-com-safe/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Cymen Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:25:38 +0000 http://www.jasonowens.com/?p=609#comment-37 It boggles the mind that someone would call you out on providing free analysis of a service in which security is essential. The account information and aggregation of transactions is enough to provide quite a bit of financial and potentially credit-record damage to the account holder if misused. On a slightly different topic, have you taken a look at PayPal's use of the Versign "credit card" RSA tokens? I was curious enough to pay the $5 to receive the card. It is an interesting device but PayPal does allow bypassing the use of it even when it is tied to an account. So I wonder if the security offered by the device is mostly circumvented in order to maintain convenient access to the account. It boggles the mind that someone would call you out on providing free analysis of a service in which security is essential. The account information and aggregation of transactions is enough to provide quite a bit of financial and potentially credit-record damage to the account holder if misused.

On a slightly different topic, have you taken a look at PayPal’s use of the Versign “credit card” RSA tokens? I was curious enough to pay the $5 to receive the card. It is an interesting device but PayPal does allow bypassing the use of it even when it is tied to an account. So I wonder if the security offered by the device is mostly circumvented in order to maintain convenient access to the account.

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