It helps at this point that Mint itself and its corporate owner Intuit have a long history of reasonably good online security (certainly better than some banks

It helps at this point that Mint itself and its corporate owner Intuit have a long history of reasonably good online security (certainly better than some banks I've used), plus the whole "owned by Intuit" thing gives a solid paper-trail to keep anyone from recourselessly running away in the night with my information.