[anu_gupta]

The problem I have with this (and I don't know whether it's just me, or if it's more common) is that I'm now innately distrustful of any third party service that wants to connect to of my banking or bank-like accounts and services.

I don't know these guys, I don't know how secure they are, and more importantly, I'm fairly sure PayPal would disown any responsibility if the data they would be able to access was used for nefarious purposes.

[abuella]

its using official paypal apis. read only access. no funny business. no nefarious purposes. just trying to make life a little easier for fellow developers.

[anu_gupta]

Thanks for the reply - this wasn't a knock against you guys per se, just my sense of distrusting anything that wants to connect to banking details.

For example, transaction knowledge is often used as a verification system by banks, and in general the more knowledge a phisher/scammer has about you the more able they are to socially engineer their way into your life.

I'm perfectly prepared to believe that I'm being far too paranoid about this kind of thing, and that many (or even most) other people wouldn't be as concerned as I am