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Frankly, I trust Mint with my bank info more than I trust my bank. One has a history of incompetence, and it isn't Mint.

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I agree with that in general, but it feels like a single point of failure. 10 different servers that all have an X% chance of being hacked are much more secure to me than 1 server that even has X/10% chance of being hacked.

That said, I like the idea of mint in general. It's depressing that banks can't (won't) figure out read-only credentials for use cases like this.

ING Direct implemented read-only credentials for Mint, after fighting with them about access for months. (ING kept blocking Mint, and then Mint would find a way around it.)

Yeah, something like OAuth for banks would be very, very handy.

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