Stripe responds to the Financial Connections/Plaid kerfuffle

This is a good, helpful response!

As an aside, I’m excited to switch to Stripe’s transactions API from Plaid for MoneyHabitsHQ.com.

Plaid’s security review process is “submit questionnaire and wait an unspecified amount of time.”

I’m at five weeks of waiting and three help tickets and it’s been absolute silence.

I’ll never get over how regressive it is that we are literally clicking on images filled with text as a way to share… text.

I seriously cringe each time, lol.

Anyway, on topic, it’s good to see this little debacle behind them. Both stripe and plaid offer good services and competition is good in any case.

I do wonder if there’s some room for innovation here from Google and Apple. It would be interesting to see if it’s possible to login to any website using plain text passwords in a way that can be delegated to other sites without them knowing the password too.

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Thinking about this more, if browsers generally allowed this it would allow integrations between sites to be implemented pretty fast by simply scrapping text.

We use this test in a related field.

If you read about X on the front page (in potentially a negative light) would you feel good about it, could you stand behind it. This helps with clients who are considering going sideways. Usually their lawyer will make some long complex argument about why something is "OK" or "legal".

We might disagree technically as well (ie, no its not legal), but sometimes it is easier to ask, hey, if this were on the front page tomorrow, would you feel good about this? The reality is the board members or whoever who have a lot of reputation really would NOT be OK with whatever - and usually speak up at this point, particularly as their personal upside to doing whatever bogus BS is low and their downsides are often much higher.

It is crazy to me too. When I was younger, I thought how great it is that we can use websites as a cheap and easy way to authenticate or reasonably assume the authenticity of what was written or said, and here we are using screenshots of text on twitter as evidence.