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by corin_ 5208 days ago
In order to log into a user's LinkedIn account with the password, they need to be able to give LinkedIn the password in plain text.

So yes, they can and most likely do encrypt it in some way, but in order for their server to be able to decrypt it when using it, they must naturally have to have the decryption code/passkey/etc stored on the server.