Regardless of who owns them, according to the annoumcements the servers will stay based in San Francisco, which means that communications and privacy are still subject to state and FCC regulations. We actually have more to fear from our own banks than we do from the Russians.
And as an aside to part of keristor's comment, the mother's maiden name was a security measure that was meant to be "idiot proof" for the nuclear family generation that didn't yet have home computers and so banks would assign passwords to accounts that the customer would easily remember. You don't have to give them that, especially now with all the geneaology trackers out there. Any password will do, and if you so desire you can contact your bank/credit card company and change it at any time.
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Date: 2007-12-09 12:45 am (UTC)And as an aside to part of