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Emailing a password after registration does not, in itself, indicate that passwords are being stored in plain text.

• Kudos 16y ago
  In addition to this, the open source distribution of Wordpress hashes passwords.
• nodata 16y ago
  My secure password being sent across the open net in an e-mail is reason enough to shame the company doing that.
  • bogomips 16y ago
    While much is made about passwords being sent across the open net, almost every site short of banks allow you to reset a password with an email, which is a close to identical problem.
    • epochwolf 16y ago
      Reset links can have an expiration time.