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Re:Six Months Later: Seven Major Websites that Send Password... by mcknz on Friday July 23, 2010 @02:26PM (#1541996)
I believe the article is referring to the plaintext transmission of credentials (your browser --> their server) which can be intercepted, rather than the plaintext storage of credentials (their server --> their database). Both are problematic.
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