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		stavros on Feb 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Plenty Of Fish Stores Passwords in Plain Text But then they're not recoverable, which is what the GP is talking about.

roc on Feb 4, 2011 [–]

There's no benefit to recovering a current password. If you can determine that the requesting user should be able to receive the current password, you can skip that step and just ask them to set a new one.

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