I'm surprised Mint was successful at all, given that you have to give them your financial account login ids and passwords to use their system. Storing such data centrally seems like a big risk to me.
They don't store it themselves; they use Yodlee to actually store everything, and Yodlee is the one that actually has done all the work (and it's a huge undertaking) to keep everything secure.
With all the writing about this deal and what gets stored where I think yodlees' profile in the blackhat community has risen considerably in the last couple of days.
I wonder if paying for someone's lunch might, in some cases, might make them feel less friendly towards you. For example, if they feel as if they owe you something and are not in a position to return the favor. They may start avoiding you in that case.
Can someone tell me why cut and paste is so much in demand? I've been using my iPhone for months and never once needed it. Are folks editing documents on their iPhone?
What I need it for the most is when someone sends me the details of a social event via mail/facebook (location/time/phone number) and I need to SMS it to my friends. Currently, the only way to do so is to flip back and forth between the apps and rely on your short term memory.
It's also a pain the other way: When you receive an SMS and you need to facebook/e-mail/SMS others (although SMS forwarding solves 1/3 of this problem).
What I would use it for is to log in to my my school's wireless network. Not the actual network itself, which is open, but the gateway afterwards that requires you to enter your student email address and password. It's quite long and I usually end up turning wifi off when I'm on campus so I can still get emails. If I could save even just the email address in a note I could copy-paste it and save at least 30 seconds of time (which is surprisingly long when you need to want to catch something before the professor enters and starts lecturing).
