Back in September of 2007 I mentioned that Leo Laporte had made some strong accusations of Mint.com.  Both Mint.com and Wesabe.com staff left comments on my blog, and both offered to do follow up interviews via email.  I never got responses from either one of them, but that aside I wanted to address two things.

First the security of Mint.com is solid.  They’re setup is reliable, and there should be no concern over the security of your account information on that site.  They use a gateway service that protects your account from being stored on their server… in essence everything happens through several security layers so that if anyone were to hack your account the worst they could do would be to see your accounts’ dollar values, transaction information and if they’re feeling rather nasty they could delete the accounts.  They will not be able to execute any transactions from within Mint.com, and they will not be able to see any account numbers.

Secondly, I’ve been using Mint.com for over a year now and I can honestly say that I love it as budgeting software.  It is the least invasive of the systems I’ve used and it gives me the a lot of information with very little intervention to sculpt the data.  If you haven’t used Mint.com, please consider creating an account and give it a try.  It has a lot to offer in a very simple interface, I think you will like it.

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