On Plaid’s website Citi, American Express, and others are listed as investors. It appears that banks aren’t against this bad practice, and are, in some cases, actually encouraging it. This makes me think that I might be missing something. Maybe Plaid has some special access to banking systems and it isn’t as bad as it seems.

May 1, 2024 · Some scenarios I have found online where Plaid might still have access include: Token refresh, cached data, and re-authentication, like if you re-auth with Plaid using your new credentials. Again, it really depends upon a number of factors so it’s quite hard to say.

Jan 25, 2019 · Plaid technically yes, but they are safe. What's not safe (Imho) that there is a possibility that someone will hack into Plaid in the future. For the sake of this question I assume, that Plaid itself is safe (even so, they will have my password only for 5min).

The important thing to remember about online banking fraud is that you are not liable.Even if you get phished and accidentally give away your PIN or other information, your liability is still capped at $50, by law (assuming you report the fraud in a timely fashion).

Aug 6, 2017 · Is this feature limited to a few selected banks? If so, I can imagine that Venmo may have passed a special agreement with them and may use your login and password only to obtain a ticket, and that only this tickets gets stored in the database, not your bank credentials (but this is just guessing, in any way they should never have to ask you for your bank password, this …

@TimX: yes, but. 1. Even with authorization the payment can be canceled by the account owner without giving any reason within 2 months of the payment, no questions asked (you sign with your bank that it is your duty to check your account statement and that it is considered approved if you do not reject it within so many weeks after they provide it).

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I am doing a CTF flag for my school project with a PCAP flag based on this CTF write-up: eindbazen.net - Plaid CTF 2012 - Torrent. I setup a local torrent file containing an .mp3 (the audio is my flag's key) that is shared between two laptops. I followed the exact same steps as found in the write-up above using Tshark and a Python script, and ...

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