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by staunch 6316 days ago
Sending your password after signup doesn't necessarily mean they're storing it permanently.
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You're absolutely correct, but in evite's case they are storing them permanently. That's actually the reason I posted this was that I forgot my password and requested a reset (~5 years after signup) and they sent it to me in plain text.
And it doesn't mean they're storing it in cleartext either. For some reason I don't think he'd understand how virtual attributes work, though...