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Posted by Charles on February 4, 2008, 7:10 pm
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Why should Quicken get _MY_ financial information from their server?
My expectation has always been that I was communicating directly from my
computer to my financial institutions. My account information and
passwords are of concern to me and my broker/bank, and are of no business
of Intuit or anyone else. If this information is actually being sent to
Intuit, I would consider it a major security breach, and a good reason
never to use Quicken. Of course, if this is so, they now have several
years of my financial information.
I ran a network sniffer to see exactly which IP addresses were used during
a Quicken update. It seems that Quicken is communicating directly with the
financial institution. I did not see any messages sent to Intuit, but I
need to do a more comprehensive search.
If Quicken does not use the Intuit servers to download financial
information, then there is no reason for disabling this feature,
especially if the financial institution has to pay Intuit for the
privilige.
Charles
>> They're not turning the features off. The stuff that runs on your
>> machine
>> still runs. They are turning off the remote services that run on (or
>> through) their machines.
>
> . . . yes but all they are doing on their end is saying, 'oh, this
> request
> came from Q2005, sorry, no service'.
>
> Also, when I communicate with my bank, is it my bank that Q2005 is
> talking
> to or Intuit? When I download transactions from my stock broker's
> company,
> is it Intuit who downloads it or is it being downloaded from the
> brokerage
> firm?
>
> --g
>
>
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