On: Steve Yegge: Have you ever legalized marijuana?

[jrockway]

Presumably anyone could just go through your trash and get as much information about you as mint.com has.

[raintrees → jrockway]

It would seem to me that forcing said person(s) to relocate geographically to carry out that work would cut down a large percentage of the actual exploits. Not an all or nothing result, but largely beneficial, nonetheless.

[alecco → jrockway]

Many people are still unaware of this problem, yes. But that doesn't make giving my passwords and all my information to a single small startup right.