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by acak 3665 days ago
I'm sorry, I hate pointing anything negative out. Was it a recent change to store passwords in clear text?

It's worrying because the founders of VK started Telegram which claims to be end-to-end encrypted.

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No, in 2007 they even sent your password to email immediately after creating account: https://twitter.com/dchest/status/739804779296219136

There was also "remind password" feature: https://twitter.com/extractor/status/739801634423857152

Also, they used to store MD5(password) in cookies.

Yes, these are the same people who made Telegram.

Sending your password in plain text in email doesn't mean it's stored in plain text; it could be copied from memory into the email before being discarded at the end of execution of the initial request.
If you ever find a service that is stupid enough to send password by email, but smart enough to store it hashed, please let me know.

Also, you missed a part of my comment where I said that they sent passwords by email when you clicked "I forgot password".