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Re:World's Largest Wi-Fi Network Keeps Passwords in Plain Text by Kesty on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @06:18AM (#3419282)
No,the pasword could be crypted in the DB and decrypted for the recovering password mail.

Still not the best solution, hashed password (with a salt) are way more secure if your password happens to be 12345.

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Re:World's Largest Wi-Fi Network Keeps Passwords in Plain Text by madflo on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @06:31AM (#3419310)
Related : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/youre-probably-stor... + comments.
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Re:World's Largest Wi-Fi Network Keeps Passwords in Plain Text by throwaway64 on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @06:41AM (#3419331)
bcrypt has been ported to almost every language/framework in existence, USE IT.
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